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SOME ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS ON WRITING ASSESSMENT

 

E.M. White

 

Adelman, C. (Ed.) Performance and Judgment: Essays on Principles and Practice in the Assessment of College Student Learning.  Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 1988.

 

Allan, R., Nassif, P., and Elliot, S. (Eds.).  Bias Issues in Teacher Certification Testing.  Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1988.

 

Angelo, Thomas A., and K. Patricia Cross.  Classroom Assessment

Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers.  Second ed. 

San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.

 

Anson, C.  Writing and Response.  Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 1988.

 

Archibald, D., and F. Newman.  Beyond Standardized Testing.  Res­ton, VA: NASSP Publications, 1986.

 

Belanoff, P. and Dickson, M. (Eds.). Portfolios: Process and Product. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook/Heinemann, 1991

 

Berk, R.A.  Performance Assessment: Methods and Applications. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1986.

 

Bizzell, P.  "What Can We Know, What Must We Do, What May we Hope: Writing Assessment."  College English, 1987, 49 (5), 575-584.

 

Breland, H., et al.  Assessing Writing Skill. New York: College Entrance Examination Board, 1987.

 

Brossell, G. "The Effects of Systematic Variations in Essay Topics on the Writing Performance of College Freshmen."  College Composition and Communication, 1989, 40, 414-421.

 

Cooper, C. and Odell, L. (Eds.). Evaluating Writing: Describing, Measuring, Judging.  Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 1977.  New edition, NCTE, 1999.

 

Davis, Barbara, Michael Scriven, and Susan Thomas.  The Evaluation of Composition Instruction.  2nd ed. New York: Teachers College Press, 1987.  ISBN 0-8077-2850-0.

 

Diederich, P.  Measuring Growth in English.  Urbana, Ill.: Na­tional Council of Teachers of English, 1974.

 

Faigley, L., et al.  Assessing Writers' Knowledge and Processes of Composing.  Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex, 1985.

 

Faigley, L. "Ideologies of the Self in Writing Evaluation." Chap. 4 of Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992.

 

Godshalk, F., Swineford, E., & Coffman, W. The Measurement of Writing Ability.  New York: The College Entrance Examination Board, 1966.

 

Gould, S.J. The Mismeasure of Man.  New York: Norton, 1981.

 

Greenberg, K., et al.  Writing Assessment: Issues and Strategies. New York: Longman, 1986. 

 

Hamp-Lyons, L. and Condon, W.  "Questioning Assumptions about Portfolio-Based Assessment."  College Composition and Com­munication, 1993, 44 (2), 176-190.

 

Haswell, R. Gaining Ground in College Writing: Tales of Develop­ment and Interpretation.  Dallas: Southern Methodist Univer­sity Press, 1991.

 

Haviland, C. and Clark, J. M.  "What Can Our Students Tell Us About Essay Examination Designs and Practices?"  Journal of Basic Writing, 1992, 11 (2), 47-60.

 

Mehala, D. and M. Vivion.  "The Role of AP and the Composition Program."  WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1993, 17 (1- 2), 43-57.

 

Ruth, L. and S. Murphy.  Designing Writing Tasks for the Assess­ment of Writing.  Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex, 1988.

 

Sommers, N.  "Responding to Student Writing."  College Composi­tion and Communication, 1982, 33, 148-156.

 

Tchudi, Stephen,(Ed.). Alternatives to Grading Student Writing. 

Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1997.

 

White, E. M.  "Assessing Higher-Order Thinking and Communication Skills in College Graduates Through Writing."  JGE: The Journal of General Education, 1993, 42 (2), 105-122.

 

White, E. M.  Assigning, Responding, Evaluating: A Writing Teacher's Guide.  3rd Edition. New York: St. Martin's, 1995.

 

White, E. M. Comparison and Contrast: The California State University Freshman English Equivalency Examination.  Vols. 1-8.  Long Beach: California State University, 1973-1981.  (Available through ERIC, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801.)

 

White, E. M.  "Assessing Higher-Order Thinking and Communication Skills in College Graduates Through Writing."  JGE: The Journal of General Education, 1993, 42 (2), 105-122.

 

White, E. M.  Assigning, Responding, Evaluating: A Writing Teacher's Guide.  3rd Edition. New York: St. Martin's, 1995.

 

White, E.M. Review essay based on Belanoff and Dickson, in Col­lege Composition and Communication, 43 (December 1992), 537- 539.

 

White, E. M. and L. Polin.  Research in Effective Teaching of Writing: Final Report.  NIE-G-81-0011 and NIE-G-82-0024.  Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Education, 1986.  (Document number ED 275 007, available through ERIC.)

 

Williamson, Michael and Brian Huot (Eds.).  Validating Holistic Scoring for Writing Assessment: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations.  Cresskil, NJ: Hampton Press, 1993.  ISBN 1-881-303-95-0.

 

Witte, S., and L. Faigley.  Evaluating College Writing Programs. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983.

 

Wolcott, Willa. with Sue M. Legg.  An Overview of Writing   

Assessment: Theory, Research, and Practice. Urbana, IL:

NCTE, 1998.

 

Yancey, K.  Portfolios in the Writing Classroom.  Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 1992.

 

Zak, Frances and Christopher Weaver (Eds.).  The Theory and

Practice of Grading Writing: Problems and Possibilities.

Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.

 

 

 

 

Selected Bibliography of Writing Assessment

 

Brian Huot

 

History

 

Camp, Roberta "Changing the Model for the Direct Assessment of Writing."  Validating Holistic

            Scoring for Writing Assessment: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations. Eds. Michael

            M. Williamson and Brian Huot. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 1993. 45-78.

 

Cooper, Charles R. "Holistic Evaluation of Writing." Evaluating Writing: Describing, Measuring

            And Judging. Eds. Charles R. Cooper and Lee Odell.  Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1977.

 

Fuess, Claude. The College Board: Its First Fifty Years. New York: College Entrance Examination Board, 1967.

 

Hanson, F. Allan. Testing Testing: Social Consequences of the Examined Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

 

Huot, Brian.  "The Literature of Direct Writing Assessment: Major Concerns and Prevailing

            Trends."  Review of Educational Research 60 (1990): 237-263.

 

Huot, Brian.  "Introduction to Assessing Writing."  Assessing Writing 1 (1994): 1-9.

 

Lemann, Nicholas.  The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy.  NY: Farrar,

            Straus and Giroux, 1999. 

 

Lloyd-Jones, Richard. "Primary Trait Scoring."  Evaluating Writing: Describing, Measuring

            And Judging. Eds. Charles R. Cooper and Lee Odell.  Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1977.

 

Palmer, Orville. “Sixty Years of English Testing.” College Board 42 (1960): 8-14.

 

Spandel, Vicki and Richard J. Stiggins.  Direct Measures of Writing Skills: Issues and

            Applications.  Portland, OR: Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, 1981.

 

Trachsel, Mary. Institutionalizing Literacy: The Historical Role of College Entrance

Examinations. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992. Chapters 2 & 3,

21-74.

 

White, Edward M.  "Holistic Scoring: Past Triumphs and Future Challenges."  Validating

            Holistic Scoring for Writing Assessment: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations.

            Eds. Michael M. Williamson and Brian Huot.  Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 1993.

 

White, Edward M. Teaching and Assessing Writing 2nd Edition. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1994.

 

Williamson, Michael M. "An Introduction to Holistic Scoring: The Social, Historical, and

            Theoretical Context for Writing Assessment" Validating Holistic Scoring for Writing

            Assessment: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations. Eds. Michael M. Williamson

            and Brian Huot. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 1993. 1-43.

 

Yancey, Kathleen Blake.  "Looking Back as We Look Forward: Historicizing Writing

            Assessment."  College Composition and Communication 1999 (50): 483-503.

 

Validity and Reliability

 

Cronbach, Lee J. "Five Perspectives on Validation Argument."  Test Validity. Ed. Harold Wainer.

            Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1988. 3-17.

 

Haswell, Richard H.  "Multiple Inquiry in the Validation of Writing Tests"  Assessing Writing 5

            (1998): 89-109.

 

Huot, Brian.  "Reliability, Validity and Holistic Scoring: What We Know and What We Need to

            Know."  College Composition and Communication 41 (1990): 201-213.

 

Messick, Samuel. "Meaning and Values in Test Validation: The Science and Ethics of

            Assessment" Educational Researcher 18.2 (1989): 5-11.

 

Messick, Samuel.  "Validity."  Educational Measurement Third Edition Ed. Robert L. Linn.

            Washington, DC: American Council on Education and National Council on Measurement

            In Education, 13-103.

 

Messick, Samuel. "The Standards of Validity and the Validity of Standards in Performance

            Assessment."  Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice 14.4 (1995): 5-8.

 

Moss, Pamela A.  "Themes and Variations in Validity Theory."  Educational Measurement:

            Issues and Practices 14.2 (1995): 5-13.

 

Moss, Pamela.  "Testing the Test of a Test: A Response to the Multiple Inquiry in the Validation

            Of Writing Tests."  Assessing Writing 5 (1998): 111-122.

 

Moss, Pamela A.  "Shifting Conceptions of Validity in Educational Measurement: Implications

            For Performative Assessment."  Review of Educational Research 62 (1992) 229-258.

 

Moss, Pamela A.  "Can There Be Validity Without Reliability."  Educational Researcher 23.2

            (1994) 5-12.

 

Moss, Pamela A. et al. "Portfolios, Accountability and an Interpretive Approach to Validity."

            Educational Measurement: Issues and Practices. 11.3 (1992): 12-21.

 

Scharton, Maurice. "The Politics of Validity."  Assessment of Writing: Politics, Policies,

            Practices. Eds. Edward M. White, William D. Lutz and Sandra Kamusikiri. NY: Modern

            Language Association, 1996. 52-75.

 

Shephard, Lorrie. "Evaluating Test Validity." Review of Research in Education 19 (1993): 405-

            450.

 

Shepard, Lorrie.  "The Centrality of Test Use and Consequences for Test Validity."  Educational

            Measurement: Issues and Practice 16.2 (1997): 5-24.

 

Williamson, Michael M.  "The Worship of Efficiency: Untangling Theoretical and Practical

            Considerations in Writing Assessment." Assessing Writing 1 (1994): 147-174.

Developing Theories of Assessment

 

Belanoff, Pat.  "The Myths of Assessment."  Journal of Basic Writing 10 (1991): 54-66. Feb. 21.

 

Berlak, Harold.  "Toward the Development of a New Science of Educational Testing and

            Assessment." Toward a New Science of Educational Testing and Assessment Eds.

            Howard Berlak et al. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1992.

 

Black, Laurel, Edwina Helton and Jeffrey Sommers.  "Connecting Current Research on Authentic

            And Performance Assessment Through Portfolios."  Assessing Writing 1 (1994): 247-266

 

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

 

Carini, Patricia F.  "Dear Sister Bess: An Essay on Standards, Judgement and Writing". 

            Assessing Writing 1 (1994): 29-66.

 

Carini, Patricia F. Starting Strong: A Different look at Children’s Schools and Standards. New York:Teachers College Press, 2001.

 

Cherryholmes, Cleo H. "Chapter 6 Construct Validity and the Discourses of Research." Power

            Criticism: Poststructural Investigations in Education. NY: Teachers College Press,

1988.    99-129.

 

Darling-Hammond, Linda. "Performance-Based Assessment and Educational Equity."  Harvard

            Educational Review 64 (1994): 5-30.

 

Darling-Hammond, Linda.  "Accountability for Professional Practice."  Teacher's College Record

            91 (1989): 59-80.

 

Delandshere, Ginette and Anthony J. Petrosky. "Capturing Teachers' Knowledge: Performance

            Assessment a) and Post-Structuralist Epistemology, b) From a Post-Structuralist

            Perspective, c) and Post-Structuralism, d) None of the Above." Educational Researcher

            23.5 (1994): 11-18.

 

Delandshere, Ginette and Anthony Petrosky. "Assessment of Complex Performances:

            Limitations of Key Measurement Assumptions." Educational Researcher (1998): 14-25.

 

Garcia, George E. & P. David Pearson. "Assessment and Diversity."  Review of Research in  

            Education 20 (1994): 337-391.

 

Guba, Egon and Yvonna Lincoln. Fourth Generation Evaluation. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1989.

 

Howe, Kenneth R.  "Standards, Assessment, and Equality of Educational Opportunity."

            Educational Researcher 23.8 (1994): 27-36.

 

Huot, Brian. "Toward a New Theory of Writing Assessment." College Composition and

            Communication 47 (1996): 549-566.

 

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

 

Huot, Brian and Ellen Schendel.  "Reflecting on Assessment: Validity Inquiry as Ethical Inquiry."

            Journal of Teaching Writing 17 (2001): 37-55.

 

Johnston, Peter. "Constructive Evaluation and the Improvement of Teaching and Learning."

            Teachers College Record 90 (1989): 509-528.

 

Madhaus, George. "A National Testing System: Manna From Above." Educational Assessment 1

            (1993): 9-26.

 

Moss, Pamela A. "Validity in High Stakes Writing Assessment."  Assessing Writing 1 (1994):

            109-128.Linn, Robert.  "Performance Assessment: Policy, Promises and Technical Measurement Standards."  Educational Researcher 23.9 (1994): 4-14.

 

Moss, Pamela A. "Enlarging the Dialogue in Educational Measurement: Voices from Interpretive

            Research Traditions."  Educational Researcher 25.1 (1996): 20-28.

 

Schendel, Ellen and Peggy O’Neill. “Exploring the Theories and Consequences of Self-Assessment through Ethical Inquiry.” Assessing Writing 6 (1999): 199-227.

 

Spellmeyer, Kurt. "Response: Testing as Surveillance."  Assessment of Writing: Politics, Policies,

            Practices. Eds. Edward M. white, William D. Lutz and Sandra Kamusikiri. NY: Modern

            Language Association, 1996. 52-75.

 

Wiggins, Grant.  "A True Test: Toward More Authentic and Equitable Assessment."  Phi Delta

            Kappan 70 (1989): 703-713.

 

Wiggins, Grant. Assessing Student Performance. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1993.

 

Williamson, Michael M. and Brian Huot.  "Literacy, Equality and Competence: Ethics in Writing

            Assessment."  The Ethics of Writing Instruction: Issues in Theory and Practice. Ed. Michael Pemberton Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 2000. 191-210.

 

Classroom Assessment and Response

 

Allison, Libby, Lizbeth Bryant and Maureen Hourigan. Grading in the Post-Process Classroom: From Theory to Practice. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1997.

 

Anson, Chris M. (Ed.). Writing and Response: Theory, Practice and Research. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1989.

 

Barrit, Loren, Patricia L. Stock and Francilia Clark.  "Researching Practice: Evaluating

            Assessment Essays."  College Composition and Communication 37 (1986): 315-327.

 

Bizarro, Patrick, Joan Chandler, Jane Mathison-Fife, Peggy O'Neil and Richard Straub.

            "Interchanges: Reimagining Response."  College Composition and Communication 48

            (1997): 269-283.

 

 

Brannon, Lil and C.H. Knoblauch. "On Students' Rights to Their Own Texts: A Model of Teacher

            Response."  College Composition and Communication 33 (1982): 157-166.

 

Bauer, Eurydice Bouchereau and George Earnest Garcia. “Lessons from a Classroom Teacher’s Use of Alternative Literacy Assessment.” Research in the Teaching of English 36 (2002): 462-494.

 

Connors, Robert J. and Andrea A. Lunsford.  "Teachers' Rhetorical Comments on Student

            Papers."  College Composition and Communication 44 (1993): 200-223.

 

Elbow, Peter.  "Ranking, Evaluating and Liking: Sorting Out Three Forms of Judgement."

            College English 55 (1993): 187-206.

 

Elbow, Peter. "Taking Time Out from Grading and Evaluating While Working in a Conventional

            System."  Assessing Writing 4 (1997): 5-28.

 

Elbow, Peter. "Preface 4, The Doubting Game and the Believing Game: Summary of Work in Progress and Request for Help."  PRE/TEXT 3 (1982): 339-351.

 

Faigley, Lester.  "Judging Writing, Judging Selves."  College Composition and Communication

            40 (1989): 395-414.

 

Fife, Jane Mathison and Peggy O’Neill. “Moving Beyond the Written Comment: Narrowing the Gap Between Response Practice and Research. College Composition and Communication 53 (2001): 300-321.

 

Himley, Margaret. "A Reflective Conversation: Tempos in Meaning."  Encountering Student

            Tests: Interpretive Issues in Reading Student Writing. Eds. Bruce Lawson, Susan Sterr

            Ryan and W. Ross Winterowd.  Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1989.

 

Huot, Brian. “Toward a New Discourse of Assessment for the College Writing Classroom.” College English 65 (2002): 163-180.

 

Larson, Richard. “Revision as Self-Assessment.” Self-Assessment and Development in Writing. Eds. Jane Smith and Kathleen Yancey. Cresskill NJ: Hampton, 2000. 97-104.

 

Phelps, Louise Weatherbee.  "Images of Student Writing: The Deep Structure of Teacher

            Response."  Writing and Response: Theory, Practice and Research.  Ed. Chris M.

            Anson.  Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1989.

 

Phelps, Louise Wetherbee "Cyrano's Nose: Variations on the Theme of Response." Assessing Writing 7 (2000): 91-110.

 

Sommers, Jeffrey.  "The Writer's Memo: Collaboration, Response and Development."  Writing

            And Response: Theory, Practice and Research. Ed. Chris M. Anson.  Urbana, IL: NCTE,

            1989.

 

Sommers, Nancy.  "Responding to Student Writing."  College Composition and Communication

            33 (1982): 148-156.

 

 

 

Sperling, Melanie and Sarah W. Freedman.  "A Good Girl Writes Like a Good Girl: Written

            Response and Clues to the Teaching/Learning Process."  Written Communication 4

            (1987): 343-369.

 

Sperling, Melanie.  "Constructing the Perspective of Teacher as Reader: A Framework for

            Studying Response to Student Writing."  Research in the Teaching of English 28

            (1994): 175-207.

 

Smith, Summer. “The Genre of the End Comment: Convention in Teacher Responses to Student Writing.” College Composition and Communication 48 (1997): 249-268.

 

Straub, Richard. "Students' Reactions to Teacher Comments: An Exploratory Study." Research

            In Teaching English 31 (1997): 91-120.

 

Straub, Richard. "The Concept of Control in Teacher Response: Defining the Varieties of Directive and Facilitative Commentary."  College Composition and Communication 47 (1996): 223-251.

 

Straub, Richard. "The Student, the Text and the Classroom Context: A Case Study of Teacher Response." Assessing Writing 7 (2000): 23-56.

 

Straub, Richard. (Ed.) A Sourcebook on Responding to Student Writing. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 2000.

 

Straub, Richard and Ronald Lunsford. Twelve Readers Reading: Responding to College Student Writing. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 1995.

 

Welch, Nancy. “Sideshadowing Teacher Response.” College English 60 (1998): 374-395.

 

Zak, Florence.  "Exclusively Positive Responses to Student Writing."  Journal of Basic Writing 9

            (1990): 40-53.

 

Zak, Frances and Christopher Weaver. The Theory and Practice of Grading Writing: Problems and Possibilities. Albany, NY: State University of New York, 1998.

 

Zebroski, James T.  "A Hero in the Classroom."  Encountering Student Texts: Interpretive Issues

            In Reading Student Writing. Eds. Bruce Lawson, Susan Sterr Ryan and W. Ross

            Winterowd. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1989.

 

Portfolios

 

Baker, Nancy W.  "The Effects of Portfolio-Based Instruction on Composition Students' Final

            Examination Scores, Course Grades, and Attitudes Toward Writing."  Research in the

            Teaching of English 27 (1993): 155-174.

 

Belanoff, Pat.  "Portfolios and Literacy: Why?"  New Directions in Portfolio Assessment. Eds.

            Laurel Black et al.  Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1994.

 

Belanoff, Pat and Marcia Dickson. Portfolios: Process and Product. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1991.

 

Berlin, James.  "The Subversions of the Portfolio."  New Directions in Portfolio Assessment.   

            Eds. Laurel Black et al.  Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1994.

 

Black, Laurel, Donald Daiker, Jeffrey Sommers and Gail Stygall. New Directions in Portfolio Assessment: Reflective Practice, Critical theory and Large-Scale Scoring. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1994.

 

Calfee, Robert and Pam Perfumo. Eds.  Writing Portfolios in the Classroom. Mahwah, NJ:

            Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996.

 

Callahan, Susan. "Portfolio Expectations: Possibilities and Limits." Assessing Writing 2 (1995):

            117-152.

 

Callahan, Susan.”Tests Worth Taking?: Using Portfolios for Accountability in Kentucky” Research in the Teaching of English 31 (1997): 295-336.

 

Callahan, Susan. “Kentucky’s State-Mandated Writing Portfoliosand Teacher Accountability. Situating Portfolios: Four Perspectives. Eds. Kathleen Yancey and Irwin Weiser. Logan, UT: Utah State, 1997. 57-71.

 

Callahan, Susan. “All Done With the Best of Intentions: One Kentucky High School after Six Years of Portfolio Tests.” Assessing Writing 6 (1999): 5-40.

 

Camp, Roberta and Denise S. Levine.  "Background and Variations in Sixth- through Twelfth

            Grade Classrooms."  Portfolios: Process and Product. Eds. Pat Belanoff and Marcia

            Dickson.  Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1991.

 

Hamp-Lyons, Liz and William Condon.  "Questioning Assumptions about Portfolio-Based

            Assessment."  College Composition and Communication 44 (1993): 176-190.

 

Hamp-Lyons, Liz and William Condon. Assessing the Portfolio: Principles for Practice, Theory and Research. Cresskill, New Jersey: Hampton, 2000.

 

Huot, Brian and Michael M. Williamson.  "Rethinking Portfolios for Evaluating Writing: Issues

            Of Assessment and Power." Situating Portfolios: Four Perspectives. Eds. Kathleen B.

            Yancey and Irwin Weiser.  Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1997. 43-56.

 

Larson, Richard L.  "Portfolios in the Assessment of Writing: A Political Perspective."

Assessment of Writing: Politics, Policies, and Practices. Eds. Edward M. White, William D. Lutz Kamusikiri. NY: Modern Language Association, 1996. 271-283.

 

Mathieu, Paul G., Drew H. Gitomer and JoAnne Eresh.  "Portfolios in Large-Scale Assessment:

            Difficult But Not Impossible."  Educational Measurement: Issues and Practices. 14.3

            (1995): 11-28.

 

Murphy, Sandra and Barbara Grant. "Portfolio Approaches to Assessment: Breakthrough or More

            Of the Same." Assessment of Writing: Politics, Policies, Practices. Eds. Edward M.

            White, William D. Lutz and Sandra Kamusikiri. NY: Modern Language Association,

            1996. 284-300.

 

Murphy, Sandra. "Teachers and Students: Reclaiming Assessment Via Portfolios." Situating

            Portfolios: Four Perspectives. Eds. Kathleen B. Yancey and Irwin Weiser. Logan, UT:

            Utah State University Press, 1997. 72-88.

 

Murphy, Sandra.  "Portfolios and Curriculum Reform: Patterns in Practice." Assessing Writing 1

            (1994): 175-206.

 

Murphy, Sandra and Terry Underwood. Portfolio Practices: Lessons from Schools, Districts and States. Norwood, MA: Christopher Gordon, 2000.

 

Nystrand, Martin, Allan S. Cohen and Norca M. Dowling. Addressing Reliability Problems in the Portfolio Assessment of College Writing. Educational Assessment 1 (1993): 53-70.

 

Smith, Cheryl A. "Writing Without Testing."  Portfolios: Process and Product. Eds. Pat Belanoff

            And Marcia Dickson.  Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1991.

 

Thelin, William H.  "The Connection Between Response Styles and Portfolio Assessment: Three

            Case Studies of Student Revision." New Directions in Portfolio Assessment. Eds. Laurel

            Black et al.  Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1994.

 

Yancey, Kathleen. Portfolios in the Writing Classroom: An Introduction. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1992.

 

Yancey Kathleen and Irwin Weiser. Situating Portfolios: Four Perspectives. Logan, UT: Utah State, 1997.

 

Program Assessment Theory and Practice

 

Haswell, Richard. (Ed.). Beyond Outcomes: Assessment and Instruction Within a University Writing. Greenwich: CT. Ablex, 2001.

 

Haswell, Richard and Susan McLeod.  "WAC Assessment and Internal Audiences: A Dialogue.

            Assessing Writing Across the Curriculum: Diverse Approaches and Practices. Eds.

            Kathleen B. Yancey and Brian Huot.  Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 1997. 217-236.

 

Huot, Brian and Ellen Schendel.  "A Working Methodology of Assessment for Writing Program

            Administrators."  The Allyn & Bacon Sourcebook for Writing Program Administrators.

            Eds. Irene Ward and William J. Carpenter. New York: Longman, 2002. 207-227.

 

Selfe, Cynthia L.  "Contextual Evaluation in WAC Programs: Theories, Issues, and Strategies for

            Teachers."  Assessing Writing Across the Curriculum: Diverse Approaches and

            Practices. Eds. Kathleen B. Yancey and Brian Huot. Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 1997. 51-68.

 

White, Edward M. “The Rhetorical Problem of Program Evaluation and the WPA.” Resituating Writing: Constructing and Administrating Writing Programs. Eds. Joseph Janangeklo and Kristine Hansen. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1995.

 

Williamson, Michael M.  "Pragmatism, Positivism and Program Evaluation."  Assessing Writing

            Across the Curriculum: Diverse Approaches and Practices. Eds. Kathleen B. Yancey and

            Brian Huot. Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 1997. 327-358.

 

Yancey, Kathleen and Brian Huot (Eds). Assessing Writing Across the Curriculum: Diverse Approaches and Practices. Stamford, CT: Ablex, 1997.

 

Writing Assessment Models

 

Durst, Russel K. and Marjorie Roemer and Lucille Schultz.  "Portfolio Negotiations: Acts in

            Speech."  New Directions in Portfolio Assessment. Eds. Laurel Black et al.  Portsmouth,

            NH: Boynton/Cook, 1994. 286-300.

 

Haswell, Richard. (Ed.). Beyond Outcomes: Assessment and Instruction Within a University Writing. Greenwich: CT. Ablex, 2001.

 

Haswell, Richard and Susan Wyche-Smith. "Adventuring Into Writing Assessment."  College

            Composition and Communication 45 (1994): 220-236.

 

Lowe, Teresa J. and Brian Huot.  "Using KIRIS Writing Portfolios to Place Students in First-Year

            Composition and the University of Louisville."  Kentucky English Bulletin 46.2 (1997):

            46-64.

 

Moran, Charles and Anne Herrington.  "Program Review, Program Renewal."  Assessing Writing

            Across the Curriculum: Diverse Approaches and Practices. Eds. Kathleen B. Yancey and

            Brian Huot. Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 1997. 185-216.

 

Prior, Paul et al. "Research and WAC Evaluation: An In Progress Reflection."  Assessing Writing

            Across the Curriculum: Diverse Approaches and Practices. Eds. Kathleen B. Yancey and

            Brian Huot. Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 1997. 185-216.

 

Royer, Daniel J. and Roger Giles. "Directed Self-Placement: An Attitude of Orientation." College 

            Composition and Communication 50 (1998): 54-70.

 

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