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Instructor: Bob Broad, Associate Professor of English
Students in this course must read the required books. Further readings will be chosen according to their value for the particular individual and/or collaborative research projects we develop.
Broad, Bob. What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing. Logan, UT: Utah State, 2003. (ISBN: 0874215536)
Huot, Brian A. (Re)Articulating Writing Assessment for Teaching and Learning. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2002. (ISBN: 0874214491)
Plus other books you will help choose TBA.
Haswell, Richard, ed. Beyond Outcomes: Assessment and Instruction within a University Writing Program. Westport, CT: Ablex, 2001. (ISBN: 1567506194)
Lynne, Patricia. Coming To Terms: Theorizing Writing Assessment In Composition Studies. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2004. (ISBN: 0874215854)
White, Edward M. Teaching and Assessing Writing: Recent Advances in Understanding, Evaluating, and Improving Student Performance. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994. (ISBN: 1555426190 [hard cover])
White, Edward M., William D. Lutz, and Sandra Kamusikiri. Assessment of Writing: Politics, Policies, Practices. New York: MLA, 1996.
Williamson, Michael M., and Brian A. Huot, eds. Validating Holistic Scoring for Writing Assessment: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 1993. (ISBN: 1881303950)
Broad, Robert L. "'Portfolio Scoring': A Contradiction in Terms." New Directions in Portfolio Assessment: Reflective Practice, Critical Theory, and Large-Scale Scoring. Ed. Laurel Black, Donald A. Daiker, Jeffrey Sommers, and Gail Stygall. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 1994. 263-276.
CCCC. "Writing Assessment: A Position Statement."
Huot, Brian. "Toward a New Discourse of Assessment for the College Writing Classroom." College English 65 (Nov. 2002): 163-80.
Moss, Pamela A. "Shifting Conceptions of Validity in Educational Measurement: Implications for Performance Assessment." Review of Educational Research 62:3 (1992): 229-58.
Williamson, Michael M. "An Introduction to Holistic Scoring: The Social, Historical, and Theoretical Context for Writing Assessment." Validating Holistic Scoring for Writing Assessment: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations. Eds. Michael M. Williamson and Brian A. Huot. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 1993.