Download or read book Writing Portfolios in the Classroom written by Robert C. Calfee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1996 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Writing Portfolios in the Classroom written by Robert Calfee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents chapters by researchers, practitioners, and policymakers who study the impact of classroom portfolios in the assessment of writing achievement by elementary and middle grade students. The focus throughout the volume is on the tension between classroom assessment and externally mandated testing. It presents the efforts of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to understand the impact of classroom portfolios for the assessment of writing achievement by elementary and middle grade students. Under the auspices of the Center for the Study of Writing, the editors conducted a national survey of exemplary portfolio projects, arranged for a series of "video visits," and held several working conferences. The result of this work is a broad-ranging tale: the aspirations of teachers and administrators to move the machinery of schooling in the direction of more authentic and engaging tasks, the puzzlement of students when they realize that the assignments are real and that the teacher may not have a "right answer" in mind, and the tensions between ivory-tower ideas and everyday classroom practice. Divided into four sections, this research volume: * provides a historical perspective, develops the conceptual framework that serves as a background for many activities described throughout, and discusses numerous practical issues that confront today's researchers and practitioners; * views the phenomenon of writing portfolios through a variety of broadview lenses such as teacher enthusiasm, student reflection, assessment tension, the portfolio as metaphor, and the locus of control; * conveys important conceptual issues with a balance toward pragmatics; and * offers unique insights from the perspective of one individual who serves as scholar, researcher, and teacher.
Download or read book The Visual Palette written by Brian Matiash and published by Rocky Nook, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing Portfolios written by Jeri A. Carroll and published by Teaching and Learning Company. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You'll find countless suggestions for infusing your classroom with environmental print, children's books and early literacy experiences. There are tips for collecting and managing supplies, reproducible family letters and student books to send home and hundreds of activities that will have children reading and writing.
Download or read book Inside the Writing Portfolio written by Carol Brennan Jenkins and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the Writing Portfolio addresses the primacy of teacher knowledge in the portfolio process. It seeks to answer such questions as: What do we need to know in order to assess the personal narratives, stories, and nonfiction pieces that children choose for their portfolios? How do we mark their progress? What do we need to know to assess the conventions of spelling, punctuation, and handwriting? How do we assess children's self-assessment insights and their goals for future learning? Jenkins makes the case for the collaborative portfolio - one that merges the selections, reflections, and goals of both the child and the teacher. She takes the stance that if portfolio assessment is to stand as a viable alternative to standardized measures, it is essential to capture the insights of both child and teacher in order to illuminate the full extent of a child's learning - past, present, and future. Jenkins walks us through the collaborative portfolio of third grader Shane and then follows his progress through grades four and five. Research findings are presented in conjunction with Shane's writing record, writing samples, excerpts from his interviews and surveys, and other materials. Jenkins also analyzes additional work from younger and older children to illustrate the development of writing across a broad age range. She completes the assessment picture with writing samples from home, highlighting the expansive nature of literacy.
Download or read book Portfolio Assessment for the Teaching and Learning of Writing written by Ricky Lam and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides teachers, instructors, scholars, and administrators with a practical guide to implement portfolio assessment of writing in their work contexts. Unlike most existing volumes, which underscore theory building, it describes and discusses several key issues concerning how portfolio assessment can be carried out in authentic classrooms with a focus on its processes, reflective components, task types and design, scoring methods and actionable recommendations.
Download or read book Handbook of Writing Research written by Charles A. MacArthur and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2008-01-14 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of essays discussing the theories and models of writing research.
Download or read book Writing Portfolios written by Sandra Murphy and published by Markham, Ont. : Pippin Pub.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how preparing portfolios, folders that contain selected pieces of students' writing, can bridge the gap between the teaching and evaluation of writing in secondary schools.
Download or read book Classroom Writing Assessment and Feedback in L2 School Contexts written by Icy Lee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While assessment and feedback tend to be treated separately in the L2 writing literature, this book brings together these two essential topics and examines how effective classroom assessment and feedback can provide a solid foundation for the successful teaching and learning of writing. Drawing upon current educational and L2 writing theories and research, the book is the first to address writing assessment and feedback in L2 primary and secondary classrooms, providing a comprehensive, up-to-date review of key issues, such as assessment for learning, assessment as learning, teacher feedback, peer feedback, portfolio assessment, and technology enhanced classroom writing assessment and feedback. The book concludes with a chapter on classroom assessment literacy for L2 writing teachers, outlines its critical components and underscores the importance of teachers undertaking continuing professional development to enhance their classroom assessment literacy. Written in an accessible style, the book provides a practical and valuable resource for L2 writing teachers to promote student writing, and for teacher educators to deliver effective classroom writing assessment and feedback training. Though the target audience is school teachers, L2 writing instructors in any context will benefit from the thorough and useful treatment of classroom assessment and feedback in the book.
Download or read book Integrating e Portfolios into L2 Classrooms written by Ricky Lam and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains both the theory and practice of e-Portfolio pedagogy and assessment in second and foreign language classroom contexts. The author addresses how e-Portfolios can help instructors make the most of the challenges and opportunities by the continuation of online and blended classrooms in post-pandemic education, and how students might be encouraged to capitalise on their social media literacy to fully engage with e-Portfolios. In addition to providing new insights for scholars of language pedagogy, the book equips language teachers with the practical knowledge and skills they need to use the e-Portfolio approach in their classrooms. It offers a balance between theory, research and the practice of an e-Portfolio approach, which will inform effective second language instruction and assessment as well as enhance key stakeholders’ language assessment literacy.
Download or read book The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing Portfolios written by Gina Claywell and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief and inexpensive book helps students compile effective portfolios for a variety of situations and courses. Shows students how to understand what type of portfolio is called for, recognize the material most appropriate for inclusion, and submit a portfolio that shows learning. This guide does not approach portfolios as the driving force of a course; rather, it teaches students who are asked to submit portfolios - with or without direct instructor supervision - how to construct successful portfolios. Anyone looking to compile a portfolio.
Download or read book The St Martin s Guide to Writing written by Rise B. Axelrod and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 1093 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides instruction in college level rhetoric and writing. It offers readings, a research manual, a handbook and supports a range of approaches to teaching and learning, including collaboration, visual rhetoric, personal writing, writing about literature, writing in the community and the workplace, field research, portfolios, oral presentations, essay exams, and ESL. It contains step-by-step guides to writing specific kinds of essays -- remembering events, writing profiles, explaining a concept, finding common ground, arguing a position, proposing a solution, justifying an evaluation, speculating about causes, and interpreting stories. Because so much college writing requires strong argumentation skills, four of the assignment chapters focus on argumentative writing, and a separate strategies chapter covers theses, reasons and support, counterarguments, and logical fallacies. Three full chapters on research give students useful strategies not only for conducting field, library, and Internet research, but also for evaluating sources; deciding whether to quote, paraphrase, or summarize; avoiding plagiarism; and documenting sources. The authors have included 39 readings by well-known authors and various "fresh" voices, including 12 students, providing well-written examples of the different types of essays and papers that students might be asked to complete.
Download or read book Methodology in Language Teaching written by Jack C. Richards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-08 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of current approaches, issues, and practices in the teaching of English to speakers of other languages. The paperback edition provides an overview of current approaches, issues, and practices in the teaching of English to speakers of other languages. The anthology, a broad collection of articles published primarily in the last decade, offers a comprehensive overview to the teaching of English and illustrates the complexity underlying many of the practical planning and instructional activities it involves. These activities include teaching English at elementary, secondary, and tertiary levels; teacher training; language testing; curriculum and materials development; the use of computers and other technology in teaching; as well as research on different aspects of second-language learning. Organized into 16 sections, the book contains 41 seminal articles by well-known teacher trainers and researchers. Also included are two sets of discussion questions - a pre-reading background set and a post-reading reflection set. This anthology serves as an important resource for teachers wishing to design a basic course in methodology.
Download or read book L2 Writing Assessment written by Anthony Green and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-07 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles three choices that face developers of L2 writing assessments: defining L2 writing abilities; collecting evidence of those abilities (usually by getting L2 writers to write something); and judging their performance (usually by assigning a score or grade to it). It takes a historical view of how assessment developers have made those choices, how contemporary practices emerged, and of alternative techniques that have risen and fallen over time. The three sections each tackle one of these choices. The first considers the social functions that define L2 writing and assessment; the second relates how assessment tasks have adapted to changing conceptions of languages, writing, and assessment; and the third explores how scoring systems have evolved. Each section brings the reader up to date with current issues confronting writing assessment (both in large-scale testing and in language classrooms) before considering the new opportunities and challenges of the digital age. This book will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners in language assessment, language education, and applied linguistics.
Download or read book Teaching and Researching Writing written by Ken Hyland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of Teaching and Researching Writing continues to build upon the previous editions’ work of providing educators and practitioners in applied linguistics with a clearly written and complete guide to writing research and teaching. The text explores both theoretical and conceptual questions, grapples with key issues in the field today, and demonstrates the dynamic relationship between research and teaching methods and practice. This revised third edition has been reorganized to incorporate new topics, including discussions of technology, identity, and error correction, as well as new chapters to address the innovative directions the field has taken since the previous edition’s publication. Boxes throughout, including "Concepts" and "Quotes", help to both reinforce readers’ understanding of the topics covered by highlighting key ideas and figures in the field, while the updated glossary and resource sections allow readers to further investigate areas of interest. This updated edition of Teaching and Researching Writing is the ideal resource for language teachers, practitioners, and researchers to better understand and apply writing research theories, methods, and practices.
Download or read book Conferring with Young Writers written by Kristin Ackerman and published by Stenhouse Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've ever sat down to confer with a child and felt at a loss for what to say or how to help move him or her forward as a writer, this book is for you. If you are a strong teacher of writing but are not seeing results from your students, this book is for you. Authors Kristin Ackerman and Jennifer McDonough have been teaching writing for several years and know that conferring can be a murky and messy process--perhaps the hardest component of all. Written from the lessons they've learned through hard-won classroom experience--their mistakes and challenges--Conferring with Young Writers is based on what Kristin and Jen call the "three Fs" frequency, focus, and follow-up. They've created a classroom management system that offers routine and structure for giving the most effective feedback in a writing conference. This book will help writing teachers--and students--learn to break down and utilize the qualities that enable good writing: elaboration, voice, structure, conventions, and focus. The authors also provide the knowledge and skills it takes to confer well, which will help you improve as a writing teacher and give your students the confidence to think of themselves as writers.
Download or read book Practical Approaches to Using Learning Styles in Higher Education written by Rita Dunn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-04-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dunn and Griggs challenge the traditional instructional process of lecture/discussion in college classroom and describe the theory, practice, and research that support a wider variety of approaches to better accommodate the learning-style preferences of each student. Twenty-five practitioners from varied backgrounds and disciplines, representing 14 colleges and universities, outline alternative strategies they use with diverse students in their institutions of higher education. Some of these practitioners have been using learning-style for decades. Others have conducted research to test the various tenets of the Dunn and Dunn Learning- Style Model, and a few, only for the past five years, have begun providing instructional strategies that are congruent with their students' preferences. A road map is provided for college faculty to assist them in moving toward accommodating students' learning-style strengths by comparing the major theories of learning styles that range from uni- to multi-dimensional in scope. Strategies include: identifying and administering valid and reliable instruments for assessing college students' learning styles, interpreting assessment results so that each student becomes aware of his/her own strengths and is provided a computer-generated prescription for improving their study skills and successfully completing assignments, designing instruction to respond to both global and analytic students' processing styles, developing course content and materials to accommodate the learning-style preferences of college students, and evaluating the impact of learning-styles-based instruction.
