Assessing the Teaching of Writing: Twenty-First Century Trends and Technologies - Couverture souple

Dayton, Amy E.

 
9780874219548: Assessing the Teaching of Writing: Twenty-First Century Trends and Technologies
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 087421954X ISBN 13 : 9780874219548
Editeur : Utah State University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Although fraught with politics and other perils, teacher evaluation can contribute in important, positive ways to faculty development at both the individual and the departmental levels. Yet the logistics of creating a valid assessment are complicated. Inconsistent methods, rater bias, and overreliance on student evaluation forms have proven problematic. The essays in Assessing the Teaching of Writing demonstrate constructive ways of evaluating teacher performance, taking into consideration the immense number of variables involved.

Contributors to the volume examine a range of fundamental issues, including the political context of declining state funds in education; growing public critique of the professoriate and demands for accountability resulting from federal policy initiatives like No Child Left Behind; the increasing sophistication of assessment methods and technologies; and the continuing interest in the scholarship of teaching. The first section addresses concerns and advances in assessment methodologies, and the second takes a closer look at unique individual sites and models of assessment. Chapters collectively argue for viewing teacher assessment as a rhetorical practice.

Fostering new ways of thinking about teacher evaluation, Assessing the Teaching of Writing will be of great interest not only to writing program administrators but also to those concerned with faculty development and teacher assessment outside the writing program.

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À propos de l'auteur

Amy E. Dayton is associate professor of English at the University of Alabama. Her research interests include historiography, community literacy, language attitudes, literacy in literature, assessment/teacher training, composition theory/pedagogy, and models and methods for community outreach.

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Éditeur
Utah State University Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
087421954X
ISBN 13 
9780874219548
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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