Assessing Writing to Support Learning: Turning Accountability Inside Out

by Peggy O'Neill and Sandra Murphy

Book Overview

In this book, authors Murphy and O'Neill propose a new way forward, moving away from high-stakes, test-based writing assessment and the curriculum it generates and toward an approach to assessment that centers on student learning and success. Reviewing the landscape of writing assessment and existing research-based theories on writing, the authors demonstrate how a test-based approach to accountability and current practices have undermined effective...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032282894
• ISBN13: 9781032282893
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"