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Assessment of writing : politics, policies, practices
- Title
- Assessment of writing : politics, policies, practices / edited by Edward M. White, William D. Lutz, and Sandra Kamusikiri.
- Publication
- New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PE1404 .A88 1996 | Off-site |
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- Description
- ix, 338 pages; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Research and scholarship in composition, 1079-2554 ; 4
- Uniform Title
- Research and scholarship in composition ; 4.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-331) and index.
- 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 --
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0873525817 (cloth)
- 0873525825 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 96040971
- OCLC
- 35280773
- ocm35280773
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries