
Grading Student Writing
An Annotated Bibliography
Bruce W. Speck(Author)
Greenwood Press
Published on 19. March 1998
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-313-29932-2 (ISBN)
Description
While the grading of student writing is of central concern to composition studies and to teaching, the process has not been clearly defined. The act of assigning a grade raises such issues as how teachers read student writing, whether form and content are of equal concern, what the purpose of grading is, and whether grading should take place at all. The vagueness of grading points to the complexity of the topic, which encompasses such matters as student peer review, psychometrics, student-teacher conferences, portfolios, collaborative learning, and English-as-a-Second-Language. Because of the centrality of grading and its complexity, the topic has generated a large body of literature. This reference book is a helpful guide to the vast and sometimes bewildering body of research on the grading of student writing.
The volume includes entries for more than 1300 books and articles on grading published between 1970 and 1996. Each entry includes an annotation that summarizes the work and its importance. The entries are grouped in several broad chapters, with most chapters containing numerous subsections. Thus the book covers such topics as holistic grading, portfolio assessment, collaborative approaches to assessment, essay tests, creative writing, whole language, standardized tests, and student progress. The entries are arranged alphabetically within each subsection, and the author and subject indexes allow the user to access information quickly.
The volume includes entries for more than 1300 books and articles on grading published between 1970 and 1996. Each entry includes an annotation that summarizes the work and its importance. The entries are grouped in several broad chapters, with most chapters containing numerous subsections. Thus the book covers such topics as holistic grading, portfolio assessment, collaborative approaches to assessment, essay tests, creative writing, whole language, standardized tests, and student progress. The entries are arranged alphabetically within each subsection, and the author and subject indexes allow the user to access information quickly.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
672 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-313-29932-2 (9780313299322)
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BRUCE W. SPECK is Acting Director of the Center for Academic Excellence and Professor of English at the University of Memphis. He is the author of Managing the Publishing Process: An Annotated Bibliography (1995), Publication Peer Review: An Annotated Bibliography (1993), and Editing: An Annotated Bibliography (1991), all published by Greenwood Press.
Content
Introduction Bibliographies Sources with Multiple Entries History/Philosophy/Theory Methods of Classroom Assessment of Writing Classroom Assessment Issues Standardized/Large-Scale Testing of Writing Author Index Subject Index