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Improving Writing and Thinking Through Assessment
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(Buch) |
Dieser Artikel gilt, aufgrund seiner Grösse, beim Versand als 2 Artikel!
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Veröffentlichung: |
April 2011
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Genre: |
Sprache |
ISBN: |
9781607524076 |
EAN-Code:
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9781607524076 |
Verlag: |
Information Age Publishing |
Einband: |
Kartoniert |
Sprache: |
English
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Dimensionen: |
H 234 mm / B 156 mm / D 16 mm |
Gewicht: |
442 gr |
Seiten: |
288 |
Zus. Info: |
Paperback |
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Inhalt: |
Improving Writing and Thinking through Assessment is designed to help individual faculty and administrators
select assessment approaches and measures to maximize their students' writing and thinking. The book offers
useful guidance, through presentation of recommended assessment guidelines and measurement principles in
Part 1 and applications from a variety of contributors in Part 2. It addresses a wide range of audiences, including
instructors who want to assess and thus foster writing and thinking in their courses, administrators and instructors
planning to assess writing and thinking at the program or institutional level, and graduate students interested in
improving students' writing and critical thinking.
This book is more guide than "cookbook." By providing comprehensive standards and criteria that help individuals
or teams develop plans and measures to improve writing and thinking, the book should be helpful for academic
and Student Affairs administrators and faculty - as the principles apply equally to all engaged in
assessment.
Contributors, representing a wide range of educators, illustrate many of the approaches and methods described in
the theoretical section of the book using a variety of assessment strategies at both classroom and program levels.
Readers will see how different types of institutions, both private and public as well as undergraduate and graduate,
have designed assessment strategies and plans to gauge and enhance writing and thinking growth in the
classroom and across programs. They candidly describe challenges encountered and solutions they adopted or
suggest. These chapters reflect approaches and perspectives from various
discourse communities - including writing program administrators, composition
faculty, assessment professionals, and individual faculty representing
several disciplines.
The author argues the urgent need to develop strong writers and thinkers. She
discusses challenges and obstacles, but underscores the necessity for more
faculty involvement and institutional commitment. This book will help institutions
and individual faculty design and implement sound, meaningful
assessment strategies to foster effective writing and thinking that will both
advance the goals of the institutional mission and meet faculty's disciplinary
objectives and scholarly concerns. |
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