TY - JOUR
T1 - Beyond the rubric
T2 - Think-alouds as a diagnostic assessment tool for high school writing teachers
AU - Beck, Sarah W.
AU - Llosa, Lorena
AU - Black, Kristin
AU - Trzeszkowski-Giese, Alyssa
PY - 2015/5/1
Y1 - 2015/5/1
N2 - In order to teach writing effectively, teachers need assessment tools that work for diagnostic purposes - tools that can help them identify students' specific strengths and challenges with writing, as well as generate new ideas for instruction. This study explored what 5 high school teachers (3 ELA and 2 ESL) learned about their students' strengths and challenges as writers from the students' performance on a think-aloud-protocol (TAP) Assessment, how this information differed from what they knew about the students as writers based only on their previous writing in class, and what ideas this new TAP-generated information gave them for instruction. We found that the TAP Assessment was especially useful in generating new information related to audience awareness, interpretation of the task, and self-evaluation. Teachers also offered creative suggestions for adapting the TAP Assessment for further use in their classrooms. Free author podcast
AB - In order to teach writing effectively, teachers need assessment tools that work for diagnostic purposes - tools that can help them identify students' specific strengths and challenges with writing, as well as generate new ideas for instruction. This study explored what 5 high school teachers (3 ELA and 2 ESL) learned about their students' strengths and challenges as writers from the students' performance on a think-aloud-protocol (TAP) Assessment, how this information differed from what they knew about the students as writers based only on their previous writing in class, and what ideas this new TAP-generated information gave them for instruction. We found that the TAP Assessment was especially useful in generating new information related to audience awareness, interpretation of the task, and self-evaluation. Teachers also offered creative suggestions for adapting the TAP Assessment for further use in their classrooms. Free author podcast
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U2 - 10.1002/jaal.423
DO - 10.1002/jaal.423
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84928318892
VL - 58
SP - 670
EP - 681
JO - Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
JF - Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
SN - 1081-3004
IS - 8
ER -