OP 28. A Social Perspective on Informal Assessment: Voices, Texts, Pictures, and Play from a First Grade

By: Anne Haas Dyson, Sarah Merritt
Publication: National Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy Occasional Paper
Date: 1991

Summary: The authors show how a teacher can use the materials produced in a classroom's community to search for clues that clarify how and what children are learning and how teachers might best support that learning.