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The Constant Danger of Sacrificing Validity to Reliability: Making Writing Assessment Serve Writers.
Peer reviewedWiggins, Grant – Assessing Writing, 1994
Suggests that assessment must be built into the curriculum and focused upon the kinds of skills students need. Considers much educational testing in writing to be reductionist, unrealistic, and detrimental to learning. Critiques writing assessment's trust and reliance on a single or small sample of student work collected and scored outside of a…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Reliability, Student Evaluation
