| Description |
ix, 338 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Research and scholarship in composition, 1079-2554 ; 4 |
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Research and scholarship in composition ; 4
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| Contents |
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 -- The Politics of Validity / Maurice Scharton -- Essay Reliability: Form and Meaning / Doug Shale -- Response: The Politics of Methodology / Roberta Camp -- 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 / Gails F. Hughes -- Response: Testing as Surveillance / Kurt Spellmeyer |
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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 -- Computer-Assisted Writing Assessment: The Politics of Science versus the Humanities / Hunter M. Breland -- The Pedagogical Implications of 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-331) and index |
| Subject |
Academic writing -- Ability testing.
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College prose -- Evaluation.
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English language -- Ability testing.
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English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
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| Author |
Kamusikiri, Sandra, 1949-
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Lutz, William.
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White, Edward M. (Edward Michael), 1933-
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| LC no. |
96040971 |
| ISBN |
0873525817 (cloth) |
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0873525825 (paperback) |
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