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Publication details [#46021]

Whitehead, David. 2007. Literacy Assessment Practices: Moving from Standardised to Ecologically Valid Assessments in Secondary Schools. Language & Education 21 (5) : 434–452.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

assessment | culture | high school | literacy | thinking

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper argues that the standardised pedagogy and assessment protocols of many secondary schools inefficiently render the use of literacy and thinking instruments, thus failing to give best evidence regarding teaching, and proposes to replace them by ecologically valid assessments.