Sometimes in schools or with a writing assignment we
move towards summative assessments where we just get this
snapshot at the end of how students are doing. Moving into more
revision along the way and having conversations with students about revision
and about their writing along the way
really allows for helping them along the way and helping them learn along the way
so it's not just here's what the end
end goal is but its how do we integrate
movement and change in the process so students can learn and do more with it.
It's not that we don't sometimes have those end snapshots
but being able to incorporate formative assessment along the way can
be very helpful for a writer so they feel like they have some
agency in terms of what they're doing with their writing.