Irwin Weiser


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Some Suggestions for Books for Review Project

Angelo, Thomas A., and Patricia Cross. Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers. Jossey-Bass, 1993.

 

Anson, Chris M., ed. Writing and Response: Theory, Practice, and Research. NCTE, 1989.

 

Black, Laurel, Donald A. Daiker, Jeffrey Sommers, and Gail Stygall, eds. New Directions in Portfolio Assessment: Reflective Practice, Critical Theory, and Large-Scale Scoring. Boynton/Cook Heinemann, 1994.

 

Broad, Bob. What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing. Utah State UP, 2003.

 

Haswell, Richard H., ed. Beyond Outcomes: Assessment and Instruction Within a University Writing Program. Ablex, 2001.

 

Straub, Richard, ed. A Sourcebook for Responding to Student Writing. Hampton Press, 1999, second printing 2002.

 

Weigle, Sarah Cushing. Assessing Writing. Cambridge UP, 2002. (While it’s not obvious from the title, this book concerns second language writing assessment.)

 

White, Edward M. Teaching and Assessing Writing. 2nd ed. Jossey-Bass, 1994; also, Calendar Islands paperback, 1998.

 

White, Edward M., William D. Lutz, and Sandra Kamusikiri, eds. Assessment of Writing: Politics, Policies, Practices. MLA 1996.

 

Williamson, Michael M., and Brian A. Huot, eds. Validating Holistic Scoring for Writing Assessment: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations. Hampton, 1993.

 

Witte, Stephen, and Lester Faigley.  Evaluating Writing Programs. Southern Illinois UP, 1983.

 

Yancey, Kathleen Blake, and Brian Huot, eds. Assesssing Writing Across the Curriculum: Diverse Approaches and Practices. Ablex, 1997.

 

Zak, Frances, and Christopher C. Weaver, eds. The Theory and Practice of Grading Writing: Problems and Possibilities. SUNY, 1998.