Web Resources on Writing Assessment

CompPile: An ongoing inventory of publications in post-secondary composition, rhetoric, ESL, and technical writing: 1939-1999.  Searchable by keywords (assessment, evaluation). 

FairTest: The National Center for Fair and Open Testing.  Resources for K-12 as well as university educators on promoting authentic assessments and resisting reductive and destructive testing. 

Nation’s Report Card, 2002: Writing (National Assessment of Educational Progress).  Reports modest gains in some student groups in the most recent NAEP writing assessment. 

Writing Assessment: A Position Statement (CCCC/NCTE).  Published in 1997, this is the official statement by the Conference on College Composition and Communication regarding principles and practices for college-level writing assessment. 

Works Cited

Alford, Bernard E. “Modern English and the Idea of Language: A Potential Postmodern Practice.” dissertation. Michigan State University, 1995.

Broad, Bob. What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2003

.Hillocks, George. The Testing Trap: How State Writing Assessments Control Learning. New York: Teachers College Press, 2002.

Huot, Brian. (Re) Articulating Writing Assessment for Teaching and Learning. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2002.

Owen, David. None of the Above: Behind the Myth of Scholastic Aptitude. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.

Wiggins, Grant. Educative Assessment: Designing Assessments to Inform and Improve Student Performance. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998.

Wiggins, Grant P. Assessing Student Performance: Exploring the Purpose and Limits of Testing. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.

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