Assessment of Writing
Politics, Policies, Practices
Editor(s): Edward M. White, William D. Lutz, Sandra Kamusikiri
Pages: ix & 338 pp.
Published: 1996
ISBN: 9780873525824 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780873525817 (hardcover)
"As a whole the book stands as the most accurate portrayal to date of the way the discipline handles writing assessment."
Assessing Writing
Twenty-two essays focus on how policies shape practices in writing assessment and how practices are intertwined with politics.
Table of Contents
ASSESSMENT OF WRITING
Part I: Political and Legal Issues
Power and Agenda Setting in Writing Assessment
Edward M. White
Writing Assessment in Florida: A Reminiscence
Gordon Brossell
Legal Issues in the Practice and Politics of Assessment in Writing
William D. Lutz
Response: Why Do We Test Writing?
John Trimbur
Part II: Validity and Reliability
The Politics of Validity
Maurice Scharton
Essay Reliability: Form and Meaning
Doug Shale
Response: The Politics of Methodology
Roberta Camp
Part III: Models of Writing Assessment: Old and New
Essayist Literacy and Sociolinguistic Difference
Marcia Farr and Gloria Nardini
Writing Assessment: Do It Better, Do It Less
Peter Elbow
New Views of Measurement and New Models for Writing Assessment
Roberta Camp
Upper-Division Assessment and the Postsecondary Development of Writing Abilities
Stephen M. North
The Need for Clear Purposes and New Approaches to the Evaluation of Writing-across-the-Curriculum Programs
Gail F. Hughes
Response: Testing as Surveillance
Kurt Spellmeyer
Part IV: Issues of Inclusion and Equity
African American English and Writing Assessment: An Afrocentric Approach
Sandra Kamusikiri
Gender, Feminism, and Institution-Wide Assessment Programs
Deborah H. Holdstein
The Challenges of Second-Language Writing Assessment
Liz Hamp-Lyons
Response: Awareness of Diversity
Marcia Farr
Part V: A Look to the Future
Computer-Assisted Writing Assessment: The Politics of Science versus the Humanities
Hunter M. Breland
The Pedagogical Implications of a College Placement Portfolio
Donald A. Daiker, Jeff Sommers, and Gail Stygall
Portfolios in the Assessment of Writing: A Political Perspective
Richard L. Larson
Portfolio Approaches to Assessment: Breakthrough or More of the Same?
Sandra Murphy and Barbara Grant
Response: Assessment as a Site of Contention
Edward M. White
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