Developing teacher assessment

"The authors are well-known in the Assessment field and this work presents their highly original analysis... [It] promotes a professional learning approach that will undoubtedly help educationalists in schools and across the schools sector in their quest to improve learning." Professor Mary James, University of Cambridge, UK. This book explores the processes involved in developing assessment practice. It argues that the role of teacher assessment needs to be put firmly at the forefront of the educational agenda and that assessment by teachers needs to be developed in a widespread, high quality and sustainable fashion. The authors, all members of the influential Assessment Reform Group, argue that the target-driven approach of external testing leads to problems, including 'teaching to the test' to the detriment of the wider curriculum, and motivational problems. In this book, they tackle the differences between formative and summative assessment and ask the question: "What is quality teacher assessment?" There is coverage of key professional learning dimensions including:   The purposes of assessment  The need for evidence to support innovation  The process and steps to develop new practice  Perceptions of what counts as quality assessment in schools The authors draw on these various perspectives to explain how teachers and schools can build on existing practice, and develop new practices, and how the system should react to support them. This book is essential reading for teachers, head teachers, local authority professionals, policy makers and academics.

Developing Teacher Assessment

Education & Teaching

Harlen, Wynne

Montgomery, Martin

Hayward, Louise

Stobart, Gordon

Gardner,John

Schools & Teaching

Open University Press

Offers critical and analytic strategies to enrich the activity of reading across a range of genres and periods, applicable equally to literary and non-literary texts. Imaginative exercises teach methods of analysing and interpreting texts.

Ways of Reading: Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Routledge

An Introduction to Language and Society explores how our ways of seeing and engaging with the world may be shaped by the categories, systems and patterns of language. This second edition includes new material on gender, register, the speech community, language and subcultures, and language and representation.

An Introduction to Language and Society (Studies in Culture and Communication)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Ways of Reading is now an even more effective text for readers who want to increase their abilities to analyze and interpret both literary and non-literary texts. This new edition features added coverage of email and internet styles, print journalism, radio and television texts, and literary texts including preformance, drama, oral poetry and film adaptation.

Literature & Fiction

Durant, Alan

Mills, Sara

Fabb, Nigel

Furniss, Tom

History & Criticism

Ways of Reading is a well-established core textbook that provides the reader with the tools to analyze and interpret the meanings of literary and non-literary texts. Six sections, split into self-contained units with their own activities and notes for further reading, cover: <ul>
<li>techniques and problem-solving</li> <li>language variation</li> <li>attributing meaning</li> <li>poetic uses of language</li> <li>narrative</li> <li>media texts.</li> </ul> This third edition has been redesigned and updated throughout with many fresh examples and exercises, updated further reading suggestions and new material on electronic sources and the Internet, language and power, and drama.

In this timely and important study Martin Montgomery unpicks the inside workings of what must still be considered the dominant news medium: broadcast news. Drawing principally on linguistics, but multidisciplinary in its scope, The Discourse of Broadcast News demonstrates that news programmes are as much about showing as telling, as much about ordinary bystanders as about experts, and as much about personal testimony as calling politicians to account. Using close analysis of the discourse of television and radio news, the book reveals how important conventions for presenting news are changing, with significant consequences for the ways audiences understand its truthfulness. Fully illustrated with examples and including detailed examination of the high profile case of ex-BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan, The Discourse of Broadcast News provides a comprehensive study which will challenge our current assumptions about the news. The Discourse of Broadcast News will be a key resource for anyone researching the news, whether they be students of language and linguistics, media studies or communication studies.

The Discourse of Broadcast News: A Linguistic Approach

The Discourse of Broadcast News

In this third edition of the bestselling classic textbook, Martin Montgomery explores the key connections between language and social life. Guiding the student through discussions on child language, accent and dialect, social class and gender, as well as a number of other topics, Montgomery provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the function of language in modern society. This third edition includes: <ul>
<li>new sections on dialect levelling and estuary English; hip-hop and rapping as anti-language and ‘crossing’ between Creole, Panjabi and South Asian English </li> <li>new material on the Gulf War and the 'War on Terror'</li> <li>discussions on language in internet usage and new technologies</li> <li>updated examples and references.</li> </ul> With detailed suggestions for further reading and practical work for each chapter, An Introduction to Language and Society is the ideal resource for students and teachers of Communication Studies and Language Studies.

In this third edition of the bestselling classic textbook, Martin Montgomery explores the key connections between language and social life. Guiding the student through discussions on child language, accent and dialect, social class and gender, as well as a number of other topics, Montgomery provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the function of language in modern society.  This third edition includes:   new sections on dialect levelling and estuary English; hip-hop and rapping as anti-language and ‘crossing’ between Creole, Panjabi and South Asian English  new material on the Gulf War and the 'War on Terror' discussions on language in internet usage and new technologies updated examples and references.   With detailed suggestions for further reading and practical work for each chapter, An Introduction to Language and Society is the ideal resource for students and teachers of Communication Studies and Language Studies.

An Introduction to Language and Society

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Developing Teacher Assessment

Ways of Reading: Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature

An Introduction to Language and Society (Studies in Culture and Communication)

Ways of Reading: Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature

Ways of Reading: Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature

Ways of Reading: Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature

The Discourse of Broadcast News: A Linguistic Approach

The Discourse of Broadcast News

An Introduction to Language and Society (Studies in Culture and Communication)

An Introduction to Language and Society