Overview
Brian Huot's aim for this book is both ambitious and provocative. Hewants to reorient composition studies' view of writing assessment. Toaccomplish this, he not only has to inspire the field to perceiveassessment--generally not the most appreciated area of study--as deeplysignificant to theory and pedagogy, he also has to counter some commonmisconceptions about the history of assessment in writing.In (Re)Articulating Writing Assessment, Huot advocates a newunderstanding, a more optimistic and productive one than we have seen incomposition for a very long time. Assessment, as Huot points out, defines what is valued by a teacher or a society. What isn't valuedisn't assessed; it tends to disappear from the curriculum. The dark sideof this truth is what many teachers find troubling about large scaleassessments, as standardized tests don't grant attention or merit to allthey should. Instead, assessment has been used as an interested socialmechanism for reinscribing current power relations and class systems
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- ISBN-13: 9780874214499
- ISBN-10: 0874214491
- Publisher: Utah State University Press
- Publish Date: November 2002
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.58 x 0.56 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.72 pounds
- Page Count: 228
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