Category: Assessment
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Notes from Steve Graham’s “Evidence-Based Practice in Writing”
Another great session this week, this time with one of the co-authors of the Writing Next report: Steve Graham. Here is an overview from the MSU LARC site: Steve Graham, Vanderbilt University Evidence-Based Practice in Writing – Drawing on Experimental, Qualitative, and Single Subject Design Research for Answers Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:30am – 1:00pm…
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Brown Bag Presentation: Multiliteracies in Composition
Last Friday, I was invited to lead a “brown bag” session for my English department’s composition program. Titled “Multiliteracies in Composition,” we focused our pre-reading on an article about a second-year college composition course developed at Michigan Tech called “Revisions.” Details can be found in the following article: Lynch, Dennis A., and Anne Frances Wysocki.…
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Literacy alive and well in computer age – Perspectives – Opinion – Technology
From the Google Reader…. It makes no sense complaining about the decline of the printed word. As it becomes just another medium, we are moving to a kind of multimedia literacy, where capability with print becomes no more important, or useful, than capability with image. This is not necessarily a bad thing. There is no…
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Thinking about Multimodal Assessment
Yesterday, our RCWP Project WRITE team had the good fortune of being able to work with NWP’s Director of Research and Evaluation, Paul LeMahieu, on an analytic writing continuum workshop. In his talk, which was similar to the session that I attended last summer, he talked about how the continuum has been developed, the pedagogical…
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Bridging the Computerized Scoring Divide?
Last month, TechCruch featured a story on a new web-based tutoring service, PrepMe. I was contacted by Calvin Truong, PrepMe’s Operations Manager about writing a post on the service here in my blog. From the TechCrunch review, it sounds like a different take on the model of submitting a piece of writing only to have…
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Pondering the Curricular Value of Digital Writing
A few weeks ago in Chico, I was fortunate enough to meet John Bishop from the other RCWP, Red Clay Writing Project located near Atlanta, and we had a splashing good time there! Since then, I have been following his blog and I am particularly interested in the recent post that he created about exploring…
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Response to “Writing Next” Report
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Monday, we will be discussing the Writing Next Report, issued by the Alliance for Excellent Education. Here are my thoughts on the prompt, “How has reading the Writing Next Report encouraged you to rethink aspects of your teaching practice?” The Writing Next Report, written by Steve Graham and Dolores Perin, issued earlier this year by…
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Notes on Timothy Shanahan’s “The Role of Research in US Reading Policyâ€
Here are notes from a talk today: Timothy Shanahan, Current President of the International Reading Association Tim Shanahan is a professor of urban education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the director of the UIC Center for Literacy. He has played a leadership role at the federal level in making connections between literacy…