Dread writing assessment?
Ms. Inky Fingers, this forum is for you!

Spend a half hour in the teachers' lounge at any school and you'll hear teachers gripe about having to grade papers. I've done it myself once or twice.

For those of us who teach writing, grading papers is the way we provide feedback so students know what to do (and not do) in their writing. We cannot avoid the stack of papers.

However, we can be smarter about how we assess writing and provide feedback.

This forum is a place where you can share your experiences with various types of writing assessments:

• What works?
• What doesn't?
• What is way too labor-intensive?
• How can you get students to take responsibility for correcting their own work?
• How can you correct without turning off struggling writers?