1、HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURTVRIESOURCEAssessmentGrade 5PretestProgress TestsPost-testGREATSOURCE.HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURTAssessment and InstructionIn past decades,writing assessment was generally held to be the province of the teacher.Students turned in work-then waited to see what grades they would r
2、eceive.Now it is widelyrecognized that learning to be a good assessor is one of the best ways to become a strong writer.In order to assess well,students must learn to recognize good writing.They must know andbe able to describe the difference between writing that works and writing that does not work
3、.Students learn to assess,generally,by going through three key steps:learning about the traits of writing by which their work-and that of others-will be assessedapplying the traits to a wide variety of written textsapplying the traits to their own work-first assessing it for strengths and weaknesses
4、,thenrevising it as neededWhy should students be assessors?Students who learn to be assessors alsolearn to think like professional writerstake responsibility for their own revisingmake meaningful changes in their writing-instead of simply recopying a draft to make itlook neaterRoles of Teachers and
5、StudentsHere is a quick summary of the kinds of activities teachers and students usually engage in whileacting as assessors in the classroom.TeachersAs assessors,teachers often engage in the following activities:roving conferences:roaming the classroom,observing studentswork,and offering comments or
6、questions that will help take students to the next stepone-on-one conferences,in which students are asked to come prepared with a question theyneed answeredinformal comments-written or oral-in which the teacher offers a personal response or poses areaders questionreading student work,using a checkli
7、stHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishingtracking scores over time to calculate a final grade for a grading periodStudentsAs assessors,students often engage in the following activities:Companyusing rubrics(holistic and analytic)using assessment checklistsassessing and discussing written work that the teacher shares with the classassessing their own work,using a rubriccompiling a portfolio and reflecting on the written work includedWrite Source Assessment
