ERIC Number: ED271763
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986
Pages: 203
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ISBN: ISBN-0-582-28516-X
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Writing Assessment: Issues and Strategies. Longman Series in College Composition and Communication.
Greenberg, Karen L., Ed.; And Others
Data compiled from more than 2,000 member institutions of the National Testing Network in Writing were the source of this guide to writing assessment. Using an interdisciplinary approach, with insights from cognitive psychology, sociology, linguistics, educational measurement, rhetoric, and English education, the book gives suggestions on designing accurate measures of writing ability and how to score these measures, and discusses the relationship of writing assessment theory and research to classroom practices and teacher concerns. The authors and titles of the chapters are as follows: (1) "The Past--and Future--of Writing Assessment" (Andrea A. Lunsford); (2) "Literacy and the Direct Assessment of Writing: A Diachronic Perspective" (Stephen P. Witte, Mary Trachsel, and Keith Walters); (3) "Why Test?" (Marie Jean Lederman); (4) "A Personal Statement on Writing Assessment and Education Policy" (Rexford Brown); (5) "Pitfalls in the Testing of Writing" (Edward M. White); (6) "Writing Samples and Virtues" (Daniel Fader); (7) "Beginning a Testing Program: Making Lemonade" (Kenneth A. Bruffee); (8) "Testing Black Student Writers" (Roscoe C. Brown, Jr.); (9) "'Objective' Measures of Writing Ability" (Gertrude Conlan); (10) "Testing ESL Student Writers" (Sybil Carlson and Brent Bridgeman); (11) "How Do We Judge What They Write?" (Rosemary Hake); and (12) "Current Research and Unanswered Questions in Writing Assessment" (Gordon Brossell). A bibliography by William Lutz is included. (HOD)
Descriptors: Black Students, Educational Assessment, Educational History, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Writing Evaluation, Writing Research
Longman Inc., 95 Church St., White Plains, NY 10601 ($34.95).
Publication Type: Books; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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