Overview

Some Course Materials

Annotated Bibliographies

• Rachelle Phelps annotated the work of Pat Belanoff
• Michael Knievel annotated the work of Brian Huot
• Heather Sehmel annotated the work of Kathleen Blake Yancey
• Bih-Shi Huang annotated the work of Peter Elbow
• Dani Day annotated works about assessment in prisons
• Martha McCabe annotated works about portfolios and legal writing
• One other bibliography, on teacher-student relationships, may be coming soon.

Writing Assessment Links

• The Conference on College Composition and Communication's Position Statement on Assessment
• The Online Learning Record, a completely fabulous way to think about online portfolios, developed by M.A. Syverson of the University of Texas--Austin.
• The Outcomes Statement, a work-in-progress by a group of Council of Writing Program Administrators members trying to articulate useful national outcomes for first-year composition courses. Keith Rhodes, Karen Vaught-Alexander and I are currently editing an anthology that tries to complicate this emerging document.
• Bob Broad's home page. Bob teaches at Illinois State University, and the syllabus for one of his courses influenced the creation of this course.
• A nice overview of writing assessment information from Ohio's Early English Composition Assessment Program, including information on timed writing, portfolios, scoring rubrics, and sample documents.

Portfolio Links

• Portfolio links from Ohio's Early English Composition AssessmentProgram, which brings together college and high school teachers.
• More information on good state assessments: The Kentucky Portfolio Project (K-12)
• Information from the Pennsylvania department of education on portfolios
• Houghton-Mifflin's Education Place website offers this meta-analysis of research on literacy--including a section on assessment (scoll down to find it)

Assessment Links, More Generally

• The Assessment Reform Network, a part of Fairtest (see below) developed to help parents, teachers, and organizations share information and strategies about assessment reform. This site has links to information sheets, position papers, and will also point you to an e-mail discussion forum on the subject.
• Fairtest: The National Center for Fair & Open Testing, an organization dedicated to ending misuses of standardized testing and to promoting sound assessment.
• Information on Learning Teams from The Schreyer Institute at Penn State. While this isn't directly about writing assessment, it offers some nice ways of thinking through design, evaluation, and assessment issues for classrooms and teams, generally. They also offer a link to their handout offering a general overview of assessment theory and techniques--including some neat classroom assessment techniques you can use weekly.
• Assessment Reform, a site that offers information about Grant Wiggins' work as well as many bibliographic references. It's part of a larger site called the Standards and Assessment Resource Bank, from the Colorado Department of Education.
• A nice set of "http://www.nctc.tec.oh.us/sites/eecap/webres/ailinks.htm">links to a range of resources from Ohio's Early English Composition Assessment Program
• Grant Wiggins' Center on Learning, Assessment, and School Structure, which includes daily quotes about education, links to bibliographies and web sites. You can subscribe to get weekly updates on what's changing at the site.
• Becky Rickly's set of links to information about teaching portfolios
• Information on educational planning from someone at the University of Dayton
• Anything else you'd like to see here? Let me know.