Irwin Weiser |
Syllabus for English 680A: Seminar in Writing Assessment Spring 2004 Week One: Getting Started January 13: Introduction January 15: Creating a Context for Studying Writing Assessment
Yancey, Kathleen Blake. “Looking Back as We Look Forward: Historicizing Writing Assessment.” CCC 50.3 (1999): 483-503. Available on-line through Thor (Jstor). Volume 49 and newer are also available at http://archive.ncte.org/ccc/
CCCC Committee on Assessment. “Writing Assessment” A Position Statement.” CCC 46.3 (1995): 430-37. Available on-line through Thor (Jstor).
Week Two: One Scholar’s Recent Perspective
January 20: Huot, Brian. (Re)Articulating Writing Assessment for Teaching and Learning. Chapters 1 and 2 January 22: Huot, Brian. (Re)Articulating Writing Assessment for Teaching and Learning. Chapters 3 and 4
Week Three:
January 27: Huot, Brian. (Re)Articulating Writing Assessment for Teaching and Learning. Chapters 5 and 6 January 29: Huot, Brian. (Re)Articulating Writing Assessment for Teaching and Learning. Chapter 7
Week Four: Other(s) Perspectives on Assessment
February 3: Discuss Project One Choices
Cooper, Charles, and Lee Odell. (Eds.). Evaluating Writing: Describing, Measuring, Judging. Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 1977. Introduction, Chapter 1, Cooper, “Holistic Evaluation of Writing” and Chapter 2, Lloyd-Jones, “Primary Trait Scoring.”
February 5: Camp, Roberta. “Changing the Model for the Direct Assessment of Writing.” in Huot and Williamson, Validating Holistic Scoring for Writing Assessment. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 1993, 45-78.
Week Five: Other(s) Perspectives, Continued
February 10: Ruth, Leo P., and Sandra Murphy. "Designing Topics for Writing Assessment." College Composition and Communication 35(Dec 1984): 410-422.
Moss, Pamela A. "Validity in High Stakes Writing Assessment." Assessing Writing 1(1994): 109-128.
Wiggins, Grant. "The Constant Danger of Sacrificing Validity to Reliability: Making Writing Assessment Serve Writers." Assessing Writing 1(1994): 129-139.
February 12: Project One Oral and Written Reports
Week Six: Responding to Student Writing
February 17: Some Classics on Response
Horvath, Brooke K. “The Components of Written Response: A Practical Synthesis of Current Views, Rhetoric Review 2.2 (Jan. 1994): 136-156. We’re reading the text; the rest of the article is a bibliography that you may wish to consult.
MacAllister, Joyce. “Responding to Student Writing.” In Griffin, C.W. New Directions for Teaching and Learning: Teaching Writing in All Disciplines, no. 12. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1982, 59-65.
Sommers, Nancy. "Responding to Student Writing." College Composition and Communication 33(May 1982): 148-156.
Elbow, Peter. “Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking: Sorting out Three Forms of Judgment.” College English 55.7 (Feb. 1993): 187-206.
February 19: Response and Error
Connors, Robert J., and Andrea Lunsford. “Frequency of Formal Errors in Current College Writing, or Ma and Pa Kettle Do Research.” College Composition and Communication. 39.4 ( Dec.1988): 395-409.
Sloan, Gary. “Frequency of Errors in Essays by College Freshmen and by Professional Writers.” College Composition and Communication 41.3 (Oct. 1990): 299-308.
Haswell, Richard H. “Minimal Marking.” College English 45.6 (Oct. 1983): 600-604. Week Seven: Responding to Student Writing, continued
February 24: How Students Read Responses
Hayes, Mary F., and Donald A. Daiker. “Using Protocol Analysis in Evaluating Responses to Student Writing.” Freshman English News 13.2 (Fall 1984): 1-4, 10.
O’Neill, Peggy, and Jane Matheson Fife. “Listening to Students: Contextualizing Response to Student Writing.” Composition Studies 27.2 (1999): 39-51.
February 26: Grading
Boyd, Richard. “The Origins and Evolution of Grading Student Writing.” In Zak, Frances, and Christopher Weaver, eds. The Theory and Practice of Grading Writing: Problems and Possibilities. Albany, NY: SUNYP, 1998, 3-16.
Bloom, Lynn Z. “Why I (used to) Hate to Give Grades.” CCC 48.3 (Oct. 1997): 360-371.
Weaver, Christopher C. “Grading in a Process-based Writing Classroom.” In Zak, Frances, and Christopher Weaver, eds. The Theory and Practice of Grading Writing: Problems and Possibilities. Albany, NY: SUNYP, 1998, 141-150.
Discuss Project Two Choices
Week Eight: Grading continued/Technology and Assessment Issues
March 2: Diverse Approaches to Grading
TOPIC/ICON at Texas Tech University: http://ttopic.english.ttu.edu/manual/manualframe.asp?typeof=icon
Sommers, Jeffrey. “Grading Student Writing: An Experiment and Commentary.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College. 20.4 (1993): 263-274.
March 4: Technology and Assessment Issues
Hawisher, Gail E., and Charles Moran. “Responding to Writing On-Line.” In Mary Deane Sorcinelli and Peter Elbow, eds. Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997, 115-125.
Huot, Brian. “Computers and Assessment: Understanding Two Technologies.” Computers and Composition. 13.2 (1996): 231-244. This article and the next and those for April 1 can be accessed electronically at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/87554615
Takayoshi, Pamela. “The Shape of Electronic Writing: Evaluating and Assessing Computer-Assisted Writing Processes and Products.” Computers and Composition. 13.2 (1996): 245-258.
Moran, Charles, and Anne Herrington. “Evaluating Academic Hypertexts.” In Pamela Takayoshi and Brian Huot, eds. Teaching Writing with Computers. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2003, 247-357.
Week Nine: Assessment, Response & Diversity
March 9:
Haswell, Janis, and Richard H. Haswell. “Gendership and the Miswriting of Students.” College Composition and Communication 46.2 (May 1995): 223-254.
Kamusikiri, Sandra. “African American English and Writing Assessment.” In White, Edward M., William D. Lutz, and Sandra Kamusikiri, eds. Assessment of Writing: Politics, Policies, Practices. NY: MLA, 1996, 187-203.
Hamp-Lyons, Liz. “The Challenges of Second-Language Writing Assessment.” In White, Edward M., William D. Lutz, and Sandra Kamusikiri, eds. Assessment of Writing: Politics, Policies, Practices. NY: MLA, 1996, 226-240.
Discuss Book Review Choices
March 11: Project Two Oral and Written Reports
Week Ten: Spring Break
March 16: No Class March 18: No Class
Week Eleven: CCCC
March 23: No Class March 25: No Class; Purdue Annual Reunion at CCCC TBA
Week Twelve: Portfolios for Multiple Purposes
March 30: An Overview of Portfolio Use
Weiser, Irwin. “Portfolios in the Teaching and Assessing of Writing.” In the Annotated Instructors’ Edition of The Simon and Schuster Handbook for Writers, 5th ed., by Lynn Quitman Troyka. Prentice Hall, 1999: AIE 14-21.
April 1: Electronic Portfolios
Yancey, Kathleen Blake. “Portfolio, Electronic, and the Links Between.” Computers and Composition. 13.2 (1996): 129-133.
Purvis, Alan C. “Electronic Portfolios.” Computers and Composition. 13.2 (1996): 135-146.
Yancey, Kathleen Blake. “The Electronic Portfolio: Shifting Paradigms.” Computers and Composition. 13.2 (1996): 259-262.
Week Thirteen: Portfolios/Placement
April 6: Portfolios for Placement
Borrowman, Shane. “The Trinity of Portfolio Placement: Validity, Reliability, and Curriculum Reform.” WPA 23.1/2 (Fall/Winter 1999): 7-28.
Daiker, Donald A., Jeff Sommers, Gail Stygall. “The Pedagogical Implications of a College-Placement Portfolio.” In White, Edward M., William D. Lutz, and Sandra Kamusikiri, eds. Assessment of Writing: Politics, Policies, Practices. NY: MLA, 1996, 257-270.
Black, Laurel, Donald A. Daiker, Jeffrey Sommers, Gail Stygall. “Writing Like a Woman and Being Rewarded for It: Gender, Assessment, and Reflective Letters from Miami Univerisity’s Student Portfolios.” In Black, Laurel, Donald A. Daiker, Jeffrey Sommers, and Gail Stygall, eds. New Directions in Portfolio Assessment: Reflective Practice, Critical Theory, and Large-scale Scoring. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1994, 235-247.
April 8: Other Placement Practices and Issues
Huot, Brian. “A Survey of College and University Writing Placement Practices,” WPA 17.3 (Spring 1994): 49-65.
Royer, Daniel J. and Roger Gilles. “Directed Self-Placement: An Attitude of Orientation,” CCC 50.1 (1998): 54-70.
Harrington, Susanmarie. “New Visions of Authority in Placement Test Rating,” WPA 22.1/2 (Fall/Winter 1998): 53-84.
Week Fourteen: Writing Proficiency/Reflection and Assessment
April 13: Writing Proficiency
White, Edward M. “Assessing Writing Proficiency.” Chapter 8 of Teaching and Assessing Writing. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994, 150-170.
Sandman, John. “Self-Evaluation Exit Essays in Freshman Composition: ‘Now I Have New Weaknesses’.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College 20.3 (1993): 275-278.
April 15: Reflection and Assessment
Yancey, Kathleen Blake. “Reflection and Assessment.” Reflection in the Writing Classroom. Logan, UT: USUP, 1998, 145-168.
Week Fifteen: Program Evaluation/Reflections
April 20: Program Evaluation
McLeod, Susan H. “Evaluating Writing Programs: Paradigms, Problems, Possibilities.” JAC 12.2 (1992): 373-382.
“The WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition.” WPA 23.1/2 (Fall/Winter 1999): 59-70.
Morgan, Meg. “The Crazy Quilt of Writing-Across-the-Curriculum: Achieving WAC Program Assessment.” In Kathleen Blake Yancey and Brian Huot, eds. Assessing Writing Across the Curriculum: Diverse Approaches and Practices. Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 1997: 141-157.
“Report of the ADE Ad Hoc Committee on Assessment.” ADE 114 (Fall 1996): 2-13.
April 22: Reflections on Writing Assessment
Week Sixteen:
April 27: Oral Reports on Book Review April 29: Oral Reports on Book Review; Written Review Due, Course Evaluation |