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Teaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and High-Stakes Testing book cover

1st Edition

Teaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and High-Stakes Testing

By Carl Whithaus Copyright 2005
202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge
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This book takes on a daunting task: How do writing teachers continue to work toward preparing students for academic and real-world communication situations, while faced with the increasing use of standardized high-stakes testing? Teachers need both the technical ability to deal with this reality and the ideological means to critique the information technologies and assessment methods that are... Read more
Contents: Preface. Introduction. Educational Policy, Testing Writing, and Developing Multimedia Composing Skills. Writing (About) Sounds, Drawing Videos: Multimedia Compositions and Electronic Portfolios. Situation(s): Using Descriptive Evaluation. Negotiating Assessment and Distributive Evaluation. Interaction. Distributive Evaluation. High-Stakes Testing and 21st-Century Literacies. Tools (AES) and Media (Blogs). Strings.

Biography

Whithaus, Carl

"Those unfamiliar with composition theory will find this scholarly text a particularly informative resource. Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and practitioners."
—CHOICE

"The issues addressed are timely and controversial....The topic will resonate with many teachers, academics, and policy makers. This book is written from the perspective of someone who has practiced what he preaches...."
—Jim Cummins
Ontario Institute for the Studies of Education/University of Toronto, Canada

"...shows us new ways to describe and evaluate multimedia composition and online dialogues, which are an increasingly important aspect of writing practices both inside and outside of schools. The examples are excellent."
—Bertram (Chip) Bruce
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"The message of this book--basically, that we need to focus first on what we need to teach and then on how to assess it--turns the current process on its head....Whether a reader buys Whithaus's argument or not, that reader will engage with the argument."

—Bill Condon
Washington State University

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