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409.03 Course Overview
Course Readings
Writing Assessment in High School
and Middle School
(English 409.03)
Spring 2011
Instructor: Bob Broad, Associate Professor of English
Students in this course must read the required texts. Further
readings should be chosen according to their value for the particular
individual and collaborative research projects we develop.
Required Readings
Books:
- Hillocks, George. The Testing Trap: How State
Writing Assessments Control Learning. New York: Teachers College, 2002.
(ISBN: 0-8077-4229-5) Approx. cost $18.
- Huot, Brian, and Peggy O’Neill, eds. Assessing Writing: A Critical
Sourcebook. NCTE/Bedford St. Martin’s: Boston, 2009. Print. (ISBN:
978-0-312-47596-3) Approx. cost: $44 but we can probably get you a
FREE copy so don’t buy it yet.
- Neal, Michael. Writing Assessment and the Digital (R)Evolution of
Texts and Technologies. New York: Teachers College P, 2010. (ISBN
9780807751404) Approx cost $30.
- Wiggins, Grant. Educative Assessment: Designing Assessments To Inform And
Improve Student Performance. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998.
(ISBN: 0-7879-0848-7) Approx. cost $40.
- Wilson, Maja. Rethinking Rubrics. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2006.
(ISBN: 978-0325008561) Approx. cost $20.
Other Required Readings
(these should be available in Bob Broad's
digital reserve
readings [DRR] folder and/or on the worldwide web):
- Broad, Bob. "“Making Our Assessments of Writing
More Authentic, Educative, and Rhetorical.”
(Article posted
1/5/04 on the McGraw-Hill Teaching Composition web
site and e-mail listserv.)
- Broad, Bob. “More Work for Teacher: Possible
Futures of Teaching Writing in the Age of Computerized Assessment.”
In Truth or Consequences: Machine Scoring of Student Essays.
Ed. Patricia Ericsson and Richard Haswell.
Logan, UT:
Utah State
University Press
(forthcoming).
- Broad, Bob, and Michael Boyd.
“Rhetorical Writing Assessment: The Practice and Theory of Complementarity.”
Forthcoming in The Journal of Writing Assessment 2.1
(2005).
- CCCC.
"Writing
Assessment: A Position Statement."
- ISPAW Team, "Making Statewide Writing Assessment
Rigorous, Valid, and Fair..." Illinois English Bulletin 91.3
(Summer 2004): 11-28.
-
NCTE: Standards
for the Assessment of Reading and Writing, Revised Edition (2009)
- Wiggins, Grant. "Real-World Writing: Making Purpose
and Audience Matter." English Journal 98.5 (May 2009): 29-37.
Recommended readings:
- Broad, Bob. What We Really Value: Beyond
Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing. Logan, UT: Utah State
University Press, 2003.
- Everything from FairTest.org
- Gould, Stephen Jay. The Mismeasure of Man.
Rev. ed. New York: Norton, 1996.
- Griffin, Patrick E., and Patricia G. Smith. The
Literacy Profiles in Practice: Toward Authentic Assessment.
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001.
- Huot, Brian. (Re)Articulating Writing Assessment for Teaching and
Learning. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2002.
- Murphy and Smith. Writing Portfolios: A Bridge from Teaching to
Assessment. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1995.
- Owen, David. None of the Above: the Truth Behind
the SATs. Rev. ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996.
- Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. Contingencies of Value.
(Selected chapters.)
- Zak and Weaver. The Theory and Practice of
Grading Writing: Problems and Possibilities. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998.
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