literacy assessment

Peter Smagorinsky (smago who-is-at peachnet.campus.mci.net)
Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:51:28 -0400

I've agreed to teach a graduate course next semester called something like
Assessment in Secondary English/Language Arts. Although I've dealt
implicitly with assessment before, I've never made it the primary
consideration in a course I've taught. I'm putting together a working
bibliography and hope that xmca-ers can help recommend titles. Not every
book needs to be specifically about teaching secondary school English; I'm
think of using Wells and Chang-Wells's Constructing Knowledge Together and
Newman et al's The Construction Zone, for instance, as ways of laying a
theoretical foundation for thinking about assessment. And so I'll simply
ask at this point, could anyone recommend titles? As Jay's done with his
research methods bibliography, I'll gladly post a bibliography when
suggestions stop coming in. Feel free to respond on or off the xmca network.

thanks,Peter

Peter Smagorinsky
co-editor, Research in the Teaching of English
<http://www.ncte.org/rte/>
University of Georgia, College of Education, Department of Language
Education, 125 Aderhold Hall, Athens, GA 30602-7123
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