Assessing the teaching of writing : twenty-first century trends and technologies / Edited by Amy E. Dayton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dayton, Amy E., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--United States--Evaluation.

English language.

Report writing--Study and teaching--Evaluation.

Report writing.

English teachers--Rating of--United States.

English teachers.

College teachers--Rating of--United States.

College teachers.

College teachers--Rating of.

English teachers--Rating of.

Report writing--Study and teaching.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

Evaluation.

United States.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Evaluation.

Physical Description:

ix, 211 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Logan : Utah State University Press, 2015.

Summary:

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 variable involved. Contributors to the volume examine a range of fundamental, including the political context of declining state funds in education; growing public critique of the federal policy initiatives like No Child Left Behind; the increasing sophistication of assessment methods and technologies; and the continuing interest in the scholarship of teaching. The first section addresses concerns and advances in assessment methodologies, and the second takes a closer look at unique individual sites and models of assessment. Chapters collectively argue for viewing teacher assessment as a rhetorical practice. Fostering new ways of thinking about teacher evaluation, Assessing the Teaching of writing is relevant to writing program administrators and to those concerned with faculty development and teacher assessment outside the writing program. Book jacket.

Contents:

Assessing teaching : a changing landscape / Amy E. Dayton

Assessing the teaching of writing : a scholarly approach / Meredith DeCosta and Duane Roen

Making sense (and making use) of student evaluations / Amy E. Dayton

Watching other people teach : the challenge of classroom observations / Brian Jackson

Small group instructional diagnosis : formative, midterm evaluations of composition courses and instructors / Gerald Nelms

Regarding the "e' in e-portfolios for teacher assessment / Kara Mae Brown, Kim Freeman, and Chris W. Gallagher

Technology and transparency : sharing and reflecting on the evaluation of teaching / Chris M. Anson

Telling the whole story : exploring writing center(ed) assessment / Nichole Bennett-Bealer

Administrative priorities and the case for multiple methods / Cindy Moore

Teacher evaluation in the age of web 2.0 : what every college instructor should know and every WPA should consider / Amy C. Kimme Hea

Using national survey of student engagement data and methods to assess teaching in first-year writing and writing across the curriculum / Charles Paine, Chris M. Anson, Robert M. Gonyea, and Paul Anderson

Documenting teaching in the age of big data / Deborah Minter and Amy Goodburn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780874219548

087421954X

OCLC:

890080160