Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Chapter 10 Make Assessment Count
Interesting chapter! So assessments are negative because they demonstrate what they do "wrong" with language rather than what they do well. She definitely has an opinion about standardized tests and what they do as far as writing goes. She sounds like she's not to crazy about six trait writing also. I am glad to see that when we developed our rubric, it fit in with being child-friendly. I understand that she sees writing in a different light than everybody else but it still comes down to scores on assessments. Until something is done about NCLB and "accountability" we still have to do what we have to do to get good scores. It would be great to just teach and see progress with writers , readers, creativity, but we have to be held "accountable" for their learning.
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One could argue, and I'm pretty sure she has, that if you instill a sense of meaning and importance to the writing you do in class, your students' scores will go up on the assessment. If we embed our writing into the curriculum in a meaningful way, our students writing will not only improve on the test, but they will be better overall writers.
I too questioned the comments about not focusing on test preparation. Although I think there's a fine line between preparing kids for tests and burning kids out, I think that we have to help prepare them to help alleviate anxiety.
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