Assessing Students' Written Work: Marking Essays and Reports
This practical and realistic book is designed to help practitioners who wish to improve their effectiveness in assessing a large and a diverse range of students. It will help them to: clarify their role in assessment gain confidence on issues and terms and consider variations between discipline compare and extend their current range of solutions to common problems with advice from practitioners consider in more depth essays, reports and projects, plagiarism and language.
Although fraught with politics and other perils, teacher evaluation can contribute in important, positive ways to faculty development at both the individual and the departmental levels. Yet the logistics of creating a valid assessment are complicated. Inconsistent methods, rater bias, and overreliance on student evaluation forms have proven problematic. The essays in Assessing the Teaching of Writing demonstrate constructive ways of evaluating teacher performance, taking into consideration the immense number of variables involved.
Assessing Language Grade 8: 56 Student Assessments with Teacher's Guide and Answer Key by Rosemary Hug. Contains 56 reproducible student assessments over a broad area of language skills, including grammar, writing, parts of speech, punctuation. word usage, prefixes and suffixes, figures of speech, and more. Answers are at the back. Aligned with national standards. This is useful for both assessment and practice.
Assessing Language for Grade 7 provides a rich variety of 56 standards-based grade-appropriate assessments focusing on the fundamentals of grammar and usage to include identifying nouns, pronouns, appositives, verbs, verbals (participles, participial phrases, gerunds, infinitives) adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions, interjections, and prepositional phrases.
This title is charts the key changes in the social, political and cultural development of Britain across the period 1945-2007. It looks at key individuals throughout these years, from Churchill and Wilson to Thatcher and Blair, assessing each of their periods in office and charting the rise and fall of political consensus. Finally, in assessing the changes that have taken place, the book enables students to gain a clearer perspective on the cultural and political Britain that they live in today.