Sentences with phrase «as editorial assessment»

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Doing this frequently in my training, I received valuable feedback from my advisors as to whether my assessment were valid and constructive, and I learned to frame the response in an appropriate tone (a perhaps unappreciated, yet vital editorial skill is the ability to communicate your opinion clearly).

In a guest editorial in Educational Leadership 20 years ago (April 1989), Art Costa suggested five approaches to «reassessing assessment»: (1) reestablish the school as the locus of accountability; (2) expand the range and variety of the assessment techniques used; (3) systematize this variety of assessment procedures by developing schoolwide plans for collection and use of information; (4) reeducate legislators, parents, board members, and the community to help them understand that standardized test scores are inadequate indicators of the quality of schools, teachers, and students; and (5) remind ourselves that the purpose of evaluation is to enable students to evaluate themselves.

It's interesting, and maybe heartening, that as comparatively expensive as developmental editing is, the same percentage of authors, 21 percent, asks for it as the percentage of them asking for an editorial assessment.