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Sunstein, Bonnie S., Ed.; Lovell, Jonathan H., Ed. – 2000
In this book, teachers, students, administrators, and assessors all show that a carefully rendered portfolio becomes an increasingly internalized standard against which learners can assess their own growth. Essays in the book share diverse portfolio projects from across the United States and reflect the spirit and enthusiasm the authors shared as…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Performance Based Assessment, Politics of Education
Download full textCalfee, Robert C., Ed.; Perfumo, Pamela, Ed. – 1996
This book presents essays by researchers, practitioners, and policy makers who study the impact of classroom portfolios in the assessment of writing achievement by elementary and middle-grade students. Essays in the book report on a national survey of exemplary projects and presents contributions to a Portfolio Conference held at Stanford…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
Tchudi, Stephen, Ed. – 1997
The result of an investigation into the grading writing by the National Council of Teachers of English Committee on Alternatives to Grading Student Writing, this collection of essays offers the writing teacher several innovative and interesting options. Following an introduction by the editor (chair of the Committee), in which he delineates the…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Grading
McLean, James E., Comp. – 1992
Four papers describe a study of the use of holistic writing assessment procedures in a pretest and posttest manner to determine improvement of 10th graders' writing skills. "Problem and Context" (James E. McLean) briefly describes the project and introduces the other three papers. "Holistic Scoring Procedures for Scoring Writing…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cues, Evaluation Methods, Grade 10
Perrone, Vito, Ed. – 1991
This book supports constructive discussion about assessment and provides concrete directions for change. The 10 chapters outline many of the difficulties associated with current standardized testing. While most educators refer to the new non-standardized test efforts as alternative assessments, this type of assessment is increasingly being called…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Classroom Techniques, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Huhta, Ari, Ed.; And Others – 1993
A collection of articles on second-language testing includes: "The State of Language Testing in the 1990s" (J. Charles Alderson); "The Exercise of Power and Control in the Rhetorics of Testing" (Elana Shohamy); "Institutional and Political Aspects of Language Testing" (Bernard Spolsky); "Language Planning Policy…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Criterion Referenced Tests, Difficulty Level, Educational Trends
