Contents

• Editorial – Where’s the Assessment? And other things …
  Kaye Lowe
• About the Authors
• Accountability as testing: Are there lessons about assessment and
  outcomes to be learnt from No Child Left Behind?
  

  Allan Luke and Annette Woods

• Criteria, standards and intuitions in the imprecise work of assessing writing
  

  Jill Freiberg

• When assessment is about learning
  Barbara Garrick
• Strategic alignment for 21st century literacies
  

  Susan Brown

• PRACTICAL STRATEGIES

  Assessment Interwoven with Teaching and Learning
  Karen Cottle, Sandra Hawken, Meg Payze and Alison Scott

• Formative assessment and staff development at a small rural school
  

  Anne Morshead 

• Explorations of affective literacy amongst middle school English teachers
  

  David R. Cole 

• Getting teens to read
  Arlene L. Barry, Winnie R. Huebsch and Jennifer Burhop 
• REVIEWS
  WRAP: An informal writing and reading assessment profile (Intermediate)    
  Shauna Petersen and Robyn Henderson
  Lockie Leonard Multi-Literacy DVD-ROM and Resource Package    
  Sandra Hawkin
  The Indij Readers – For little fullas, for big fullas (Series 1, 2 and 3)    
  Teachers from Ainslie School
  National Reading Day 2007 Activities
  Someone Like Me by Elaine Forrestal – activities
  Beryl Exley