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Podcast: The Reading Instruction Show
Episode: A Pramatic Way to Address Academic Standards for Writing
Description: The impact of academic standards on students’ ability to write is questionable. Some believe that they impede more than enhance effective writing instruction. However, academic standards are part of our current educational life, thus this podcast I will (a) present some ideas for evaluating and assessing academic standards related to writing and (b) describe how you might pragmatically document students’ mastery of them. We will start by defining our terms. An academic standard defines what you want students to know or be able to do in a general sense. Benchmarks in education are the products or p...