Grading Student Writing

An Annotated Bibliography

Bruce W. Speck

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English

Greenwood Press
19 March 1998

Writing skills; Bibliographies, catalogues, discographies; Teacher assessment; Higher & further education, tertiary education

Series: Bibliographies and Indexes in Education

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.

By: Bruce W. Speck
Imprint: Greenwood Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Annotated edition
Volume: No. 18.
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 671g
ISBN: 9780313299322
ISBN 10: 0313299323
Series: Bibliographies and Indexes in Education
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 19 March 1998
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Grading Student Writing: An Annotated Bibliography

"?It is recommended for academic libraries, should be of particular interest to faculty seeking creative ways to teach and grade student's work, and will serve as a resource for institutions that have active writing centers.?-Choice ?This will be a useful resource for professors of writing, researchers, and teachers who are searching for ways to improve or evaluate their grading methods. Thanks to its exhaustive number on entries, it shoud prove particularly useful for doctoral students in search of a related research project.?-ARBA ""It is recommended for academic libraries, should be of particular interest to faculty seeking creative ways to teach and grade student's work, and will serve as a resource for institutions that have active writing centers.""-Choice ""This will be a useful resource for professors of writing, researchers, and teachers who are searching for ways to improve or evaluate their grading methods. Thanks to its exhaustive number on entries, it shoud prove particularly useful for doctoral students in search of a related research project.""-ARBA"