While most English professionals feel comfortable with language and
literacy theories, assessment theories seem more alien. English
professionals often don't have a clear understanding of the key
concepts in educational measurement, such as validity and
reliability, nor do they understand the statistical formulas
associated with psychometrics. But understanding assessment
theory--and applying it--by those who are not psychometricians is
critical in developing useful, ethical assessments in college
writing programs, and in interpreting and using assessment results.
"A Guide to College Writing Assessment" is designed as an
introduction and source book for WPAs, department chairs, teachers,
and administrators. Always cognizant of the critical components of
particular teaching contexts, O'Neill, Moore, and Huot have written
sophisticated but accessible chapters on the history, theory,
application and background of writing assessment, and they offer a
dozen appendices of practical samples and models for a range of
common assessment needs.
Because there are numerous resources available to assist faculty in
assessing the writing of individual students in particular
classrooms, "A Guide to College Writing Assessment "focuses on
approaches to the kinds of assessment that typically happen outside
of individual classrooms: placement evaluation, exit examination,
programmatic assessment, and faculty evaluation. Most of all, the
argument of this book is that creating the conditions for
meaningful college writing assessment hinges not only on
understanding the history and theories informing assessment
practice, but also on composition programs availing themselves of
the full range of available assessment practices.
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