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

Published Mahwah : Taylor and Francis, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (203 pages) Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Overview; Acknowledgments; Introduction; IT Is Changing How Students Write; Where Does That Leave the Teacher-Reader?; Work and Professional Studies Electronic Portfolios; 1 Educational Policy, Testing Writing, and Developing Multimedia Composing Skills; Multimodal Multiliteracies; What Writing Assessment Systems Are Looking at Now; Texas TAAS; New York State Regents Exam; SAT Writing Component W-Section of the New SAT; Critiques of High-Stakes Writing Assessment AES Systems and Grammar Checkers as Software Response/Feedback AgentsElectronic Portfolios; Closing: Assessing Multimodal Multiliteracies; 2 Writing (About) Sounds, Drawing Videos: Multimedia Compositions and Electronic Portfolios; What Is It About Music?; Keeping It Real, Relevance, and Whatever {is played back in juxtaposition}; Accessibility, Relevance, and Situation; Incomprehensible Texts; "Yo, Yo, Yo": Situational Relevance and Irreverence; Closing: what ever is played back in juxtaposition, Changing Contexts, Changing Meaning; 3 Situation(s): UsingDescriptive Evaluation Situation and DistributionDescriptive Evaluation and End Comments; Descriptive Evaluation and Grades; Situated Interactions; Assessment Systems; Electronic Portfolios; Closing: Situations and Participatory Frameworks; 4 Negotiating Assessment and Distributive Evaluation; Students Know How to Listen; Scene: New Jersey Spring; Asking the Students a Question: What Is Good Writing?; Community of Practice; Good Writing; Final Words; Negotiating Assessment Criteria; The Online Discussion; Day 2: Evaluation Criteria; Closing: Situated and Negotiated Criteria; 5 Interaction Cities and Urban Landscapes: Reading and Responding to a Student Hypertext Essayhooks-Barlow: The Risks of Dialogue and Learning; Intimacy and Dialogue; Risk and Expecting Too Much; Grammar; Closing: Interaction as Return to Dialogue; 6 Distributive Evaluation; The Evaluative Essays: The Previous Uses of Hypertext; A Classical Study of Student Hypertext: Karl Crary's "Garden of Forking Paths"; Women in Asian Societies: Student Descriptions and Distributive Evaluation; Sex and Sexuality: The Students' Assessments and Their Basis in Descriptive Evaluation Closing: Students as Readers and Assessment as Interactive, Descriptive, Situated, and Distributed7 High-Stakes Testing and 21st-Century Literacies; High-Stakes Tests; Context; 21st-Century Literacies: What the Experts Think/Predict; Impact of Information Technology on Assessment Systems; Technology; Closing: Back to the Future (QUILL and the early 1980s); 8 Tools (AES) and Media (blogs); ""Piling Up"" Literacies; Integration; Automatic Essay Scoring (AES) Software; Blogs; Closing: Bringing AES and blogs Together; 9 Strings; Multimodal and Multimedia Composing Theories Summary 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 transforming the writing classroom. Teaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and High-Stakes Testing serves this dual need by offering a theoretical framework, actual case studies, and pract Notes A Print-Based, Thesis-Driven Essay Print version record Subject English language -- Composition and exercises -- Ability testing -- United States English language -- Composition and exercises -- Computer-assisted instruction English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching -- Computer network resources English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States English language -- Rhetoric -- Ability testing -- United States English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Computer network resources English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- United States English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching English language -- Rhetoric -- Ability testing English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Secondary) English language -- Composition and exercises -- Ability testing English language -- Composition and exercises -- Computer-assisted instruction English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Computer network resources United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9781410613691 1410613690

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