文档介绍：SECOND EDITION
EVALUATING
CHILDREN’S
WRITING
A HANDBOOK OF GRADING CHOICES
FOR CLASSROOM TEACHERS
SUZANNE BRATCHER
WITH LINDA RYAN
Evaluating Children’s Writing
A Handbook
of Grading Choices
for Classroom Teachers
Second Edition
Evaluating Children’s Writing
A Handbook
of Grading Choices
for Classroom Teachers
Second Edition
SUZANNE BRATCHER
With
LINDA RYAN
LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS
2004 MAHWAH, NEW JERSEY LONDON
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brachter, Suzanne.
Evaluating children’s writing : a handbook of grading choices for classroom
teachers / Suzanne Brachter with Linda Ryan. —2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8058-4454-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. English position and exercises—Ability testing.
2. Children—Writing. I. Ryan, Linda, 1952–. II. Title.
2003
’3—dc21 20020192789
CIP
Books published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates are printed on acid-free paper,
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Dedicated to
the teachers of
the Northern Arizona Writing Project,
who kept asking until I answered.
CONTENTS
Preface xi
PART I The Objectives of Evaluation 1
CHAPTER 1 In the Background: How We Feel
about Grading 3
Chapter Summary 6
EXERCISES 6
References 6
CHAPTER 2 Specific Situations: Putting Evaluation into
a Context 9
Student Audience Considerations 10
Instructional Purposes of Grading 12
Teacher Stance toward Grading 15
Chapter Summary 17
E