The nature of teachers' qualitative judgements: A matter of context and salience.

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Title:	The nature of teachers' qualitative judgements: A matter of context and salience.
Authors:	Wyatt-Smith, Claire, Castleton, Geraldine, Freebody, Peter, Cooksey, Ray
Source:	Australian Journal of Language & Literacy. Jun2003, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p11. 22p.
Subject Terms:	Teaching, School children, *Grading of students
Abstract:	This paper and the one that follows report on how two teachers make judgments of primary students' writing. The evidence base used by the teachers in their judgments is analysed using qualitative techniques for mapping the inter-relationships among the various facets of students' performance, behaviours and attitudes. This approach makes it possible to examine and directly gauge the impact of evaluative frameworks that constitute the official, publicly available account of assessment as well as the contribution of otherwise implicit but nonetheless significant determinants of teachers' judgments. Of special interest in the first paper is how the teachers enact judgments as having local, point-in-time relevance for teaching and learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:	This paper and the one that follows report on how two teachers make judgments of primary students' writing. The evidence base used by the teachers in their judgments is analysed using qualitative techniques for mapping the inter-relationships among the various facets of students' performance, behaviours and attitudes. This approach makes it possible to examine and directly gauge the impact of evaluative frameworks that constitute the official, publicly available account of assessment as well as the contribution of otherwise implicit but nonetheless significant determinants of teachers' judgments. Of special interest in the first paper is how the teachers enact judgments as having local, point-in-time relevance for teaching and learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:	10381562