Product Description: In this book, Troy Hicks – a leader in the teaching of digital writing – collaborates with seven National Writing Project teacher consultants to provide a protocol for assessing students’ digital writing. This collection highlights six case studies centered on evidence the authors have uncovered through teacher inquiry and structured conversations about students’ digital writing...read more

Product Description: "These assessment tools make progress in writing as transparent, concrete, and obtainable as possible and put ownership for this progress into the hands of learners, allowing students and teachers to work toward a very clear image of what good writing entails...read more

Product Description: Educators strive to create “assessment cultures” in which they integrate evaluation into teaching and learning and match assessment methods with best instructional practice. But how do teachers and administrators discover and negotiate the values that underlie their evaluations? Bob Broad’s 2003 volume, What We Really Value, introduced dynamic criteria mapping (DCM) as a method for eliciting locally-informed, context-sensitive criteria for writing assessments...read more

Provides step-by-step instructions on creating a writing program using rubrics, and includes lesson plans, forms, and scheduling guidelines. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The second edition of PORTFOLIO AND PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT updates the growing nature of the trend toward portfolio assessment as a highly effective methodology. It effectively develops youngsters as self-assessors while it weds assessment and instruction as inseparable...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The second edition of PORTFOLIO AND PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT updates the growing nature of the trend toward portfolio assessment as a highly effective methodology. It effectively develops youngsters as self-assessors while it weds assessment and instruction as inseparable...read more

(view table of contents)