Additional Readings on Writing Assessment

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Alford, Bernard E. Modern English and the Idea of Language: A Potential Postmodern Practice. East Lansing MI: Michigan State University, 1995. ILL

Anson, Chris, ed. Writing and Response: Theory, Practice, and Research. Urban IL: NCTE, 1989. PE1404 .W6934 1989

Belanoff, Pat, and Marcia Dickson, eds. Portfolios: Process and Product. Portsmouth NH: Boynton/Cook, 1991. LB3051 .P6146 1991

Black, Laurel, et al., eds. New Directions in Portfolio Assessment: Reflective Practice, Critical Theory, and Large-Scale Scoring. Portsmouth NH: Boynton/Cook, 1994. LB1631.5

Bloom, Lynn Z. "Why I (Used to) Hate Grading." College Composition and Communication GET PAGES.

Broad, Bob. "Reciprocal Authority in Communal Writing Assessment: Constructing Textual Value within a 'New Politics of Inquiry.' Assessing Writing 4.2 (1997): 133-67.

Broad, Robert L. "Portfolio Scoring: A Contradiction in Terms." New Directions in Portfolio Assessment: : Reflective Practice, Critical Theory, and Large-Scale Scoring. Portsmouth NH: Boynton/Cook, 1994. LB1631.5 .N48 1994

Carini, Pat. "Dear Sister Bess: An Essay on Standards, Judgment, and Writing." Assessing Writing 1(1): 29-67.

Connors, Robert J. and Andrea A. Lunsford. "Teachers' Rhetorical Comments on Student Papers. College Composition and Communication 44(1993): 200-33.

Delandshere, Ginette, and Anthony R. Petrosky. "Capturing Teachers' Knowledge: Performance Assessment…" Educational Researcher 23.5 (1994): 11-18. L11 .A12

Elbow, Peter. "Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking: Sorting Out Three Forms of Judgment." College English 55(2): 187-206.

>----. "Time Outs from Grading and Evaluating While Working in a Conventional System." Assessing Writing 4(1): 72-83.

Faigley, Lester. "Judging Writing, Judging Selves." College Composition and Communication 40.4 (1989): 395-412.

Guba, Egon G., and Yvonna S. Lincoln. Fourth Generation Evaluation. Newbury Park: Sage Publishing, 1989.

Hanson, Allan F. Testing Testing: Social Consequences of the Examined Life. Berkeley: University of California P, 1993. BF697.5.S43 H365 1993

Haswell, Richard H. Gaining Ground in College Writing: Tales of Development and Interpretation. Dallas: SMU Press, 1991. PE 1404.H39 1991

-----."Minimal Marking." College English 45 (1983): 600-4.

-----, and Susan Wyche-Smith. "Adventuring in Writing Assessment." College Composition and Communication 45(2): 220-36.

Hewitt Geoff. A Portfolio Primer: Teaching, Collecting, and Assessing Student Writing. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 1995. LB1576 .H344 1994

Hillocks, George. Research on Written Composition: New Directions for Teaching. Urbana IL: ERIC. PE1404 .H55 1986

Huot, Brian. "Toward a New Theory of Writing Assessment." College Composition and Communication 47.4 (1996): 549-66.

Milton, Ohmer. Making sense of college grades: why the grading system does not work and what can be done about it. 1st ed. 1986.
Mortensen, Peter, and Gesa E. Kirsch, eds. Ethics and Representation in Qualitative Studies of Literacy. Urbana IL: NCTE, 1996. ILL

Moss, Pamela. "Can There Be Validity Without Reliability?" Educational Researcher 23.2 (1994): 5-12. L11 .A12

-----. "Enlarging the Dialogue in Educational Measurement: Voices from Interpretive Research Traditions." Educational Researcher 25.1 (1996): 20-28, 43. L11 .A12

North, Stephen. The Making of Knowledge in Composition: Portrait of an Emerging Field. Upper Montclair NH: Boynton/Cook, 1987. PE1404 .N67 1987

Patton, Michael Quinn. Qualitative Evaluation and Research Methods. Newbury Park, Sage Publishing, 1990. H62 .P3218 1990 checked out

Smith, Barbara Hernnstein. Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1988. BH39 .S4794 1988

White, Edward M. "An Apologia for the Timed Impromptu Essay Test." College Composition and Communication 46.1 (1995): 30-45.

-----. Assigning, Responding, Evaluaing: A Writing Teacher's Guide. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. LB1576 .W4862 1995

-----. Teaching and Assessing Writing, 2nd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994. PE1404 .W48 1985

White, Edward M., Lynn Z. Bloom, and Donald A. Daiker. Composition in the Twenty-FIrst Century: Crisis and Change. Carbondale IL: SIUP, 1996. PE1404 .C6255 1996

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

-----. "The Constant Danger of Sacrificing Validity to Reliability: Making Writing Assessment Serve Writers." Assessing Writing 1.1 (1994): 129-39.

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

-----. "A True Test: Toward More Authentic and Equitable Assessment." Phi Delta Kappan 70 (1989): 703-13.

Williamson, Michael M. and Brian A. Huot, eds. Validating Holistic Scoring for Writing Assessment. Cresskill NJ: Hampton, 1993. LB1631 .V35 1993

Willingham, Warren, and Nancy Cole. Gender and Fair Assessment. Mahwah NH: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997.

Zak, Frances and Christopher C. Weaver, eds. The Theory and Practice of Grading Writing: Problems and Possibilities. Albany: SUNY P, 1998. PE1404 .T478 1998

Susanmarie Harrington
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