Assigning, Responding, Evaluating
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Edward M. White
Edward M. White is a visiting scholar in English at the University of Arizona and Professor Emeritus of English at California State University, San Bernardino, where he served prolonged periods as English department chair and coordinator of the upper-division university writing program. He has been coordinator of the state-wide CSU Writing Skills Improvement Program and for over a decade was director of the English Equivalency Examination program. On the national scene, he directed the consultant/evaluator service of WPA for fifteen years and in 1993 was elected to a second term on the executive committee of CCCC. His Teaching and Assessing Writing (1985) has been called “required reading” for the profession; a new edition in 1994 received an MLA Mina Shaughnessy award “for outstanding research.” He is author of more than one hundred articles and book chapters on literature and the teaching of writing, and has coauthored five English composition textbooks, most recently Inquiry (2004) and The Promise of America (2006). His Developing Successful College Writing Programs was published in 1989, and his latest book, with Norbert Elliot and Irvin Peckham, Very Like a Whale: The Assessment of  Writing Programs is being published in 2015. He is also coeditor of three essay collections for the  MLA and SIU presses. His work has recently been recognized by the publication of Writing Assessment in the 21st Century: Essays in Honor of Edward M. White (2012) and  by the 2011 Exemplar Award from the CCCC.
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Cassie A. Wright
Cassie A. Wright is a Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University, where she also serves on the Curriculum Committee, and works as a writing and digital media consultant in the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking. She has helped design the assessment protocol for Stanfords Notation in Science Communication, a communication across the disciplines eportfolio initiative supporting undergraduate technical and professional writing. Her primary research interests focus on composition pedagogy, writing program administration, and assessment. Her previous published work concerns sports media’s pedagogical role in constructing desirable gendered subjectivities; she has a forthcoming first-year reader on sports media for Fountainhead Press’s V-Series and teaches composition courses at Stanford currently focused on sports media and international sport policy and diplomacy rhetorics.
Table of Contents
ADDRESSING ESL CONCERNS IN ASSIGNING WRITING
PART II RESPONDING
3 Ways of Responding to Student Writing PURPOSES AND EFFECTS OF RESPONDING AUTHORITY, RESPONSIBILITY, AND CONTROLRESPONDING TO DRAFTSUSING STUDENT RESPONSE GROUPS (PEER REVIEW) SAMPLE STUDENT PAPER IN TWO DRAFTSResponding to "Explorer Post 14: Not Intellectually Prepared" Responding to the Revised "Explorer Post 14: The New World" RESPONDIN G TO COLLABORATIVE WRITIN G FOSTERIN G SELF-ASSESS MENTHANDLING THE PAPER LOADA Note on Presentation Copy
4 Using Assessment as Part of Teaching
ASSESSMENT AND STUDENT MOTIVATION MET HODO LOGIES OF SCORIN G WRITIN G: HOLISTIC, ANA LYTIC, AND PRIMARY TRAITUSING HOLISTI C SCORING GUIDES TO IMPROVE ASSIGNMENTSSample Scoring Guide 1: 6-Point Scale for Assigned Topic Sample Scoring Guide 2: 2-Point Scale for Research-Based WritingSample Scoring Guide 3: Close ReadingSample Scoring Guide 4: Multiple Trait Scoring for Rhetorical Analysis USING SCORING GUIDES AS PART OF TEACHING WRITINGPART III EVALUATING5 Grading Writing Using Holistic Scoring GuidesEVALUATING IMPROMPTU WRITING BASED ON PERSONAL EXPERIENCEEssay Test 1: Personal Experience Assignment Essay Test 2: Personal Experience Assignment 2 EVALUATIN G IMPROMPTU WRITING BASED ON GIVEN TEXTSEssay Test 3: Text-Based Assignment 1Essay Test 4: Text-Based Assignment 2NOTES ON IMPROMPTU WRITING FOR ASSESSMENT 6 Using Portfolios A BRIEF HISTORY OF PORTFOLIOS AND THEIR EVALUATIONproblems with holistic portfolio scoringKEYS TO THE PHASE 2 METHOD: GOALS STATEMENTS AND THE REFLECTIVE LETTEThe Importance of Goals Statements The Importance of the Student Reflective Letter TEACHER -GRADED COURSE PORTFOLIOSScoring Portfolios Based on the Reflective LetterSTAFF-GRADED COURSE PORTFOLIOSContent of the PortfolioLeaving or Removing Original Grades and CommentsScoring ProceduresCriteria for Scoring ReliablyAppeals Procedures SAMPLE GOALS STATEMENTSCalifornia State University, San Bernardino, Department of English Goals for English MajorsNorthern Arizona University Goals for English 105Arizona State University Writing Programs Course Goals, Objectives, and OutcomesUniversity of Arizona, Electrical and Computer Engineering Writing Outcomes 7 Writing Programs and EvaluationASSESSMENT AND WRITIN G PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION: PLACEMENT, DIAGNOSTIC, EXIT , AND PROFICIENCY TESTInstructor PlacementCommittee PlacementDIRECTED SELF-PLACEMENTADMISSIONS AND TRANSFER CREDITWRITIN G ASSESS MENT ACROSS THE DIS CIPLINESUSING IMPROMPTU WRITING AND GROUP SCORING FOR RESEARCHPROGRAM EVALUATION IN THE FUTUREEPILOGUEAppendix: Important Educational Policies for Composition TeachersGOALS STATEMENTS AND FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION DIGITAL WRITIN G AND TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY LITERACIESESL AND SECOND-LANGUAGE WRITINGWPA OUTCOMES STATEMENT FOR FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION (V3.0)IndexProduct Updates
Authors
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Edward M. White
Edward M. White is a visiting scholar in English at the University of Arizona and Professor Emeritus of English at California State University, San Bernardino, where he served prolonged periods as English department chair and coordinator of the upper-division university writing program. He has been coordinator of the state-wide CSU Writing Skills Improvement Program and for over a decade was director of the English Equivalency Examination program. On the national scene, he directed the consultant/evaluator service of WPA for fifteen years and in 1993 was elected to a second term on the executive committee of CCCC. His Teaching and Assessing Writing (1985) has been called “required reading” for the profession; a new edition in 1994 received an MLA Mina Shaughnessy award “for outstanding research.” He is author of more than one hundred articles and book chapters on literature and the teaching of writing, and has coauthored five English composition textbooks, most recently Inquiry (2004) and The Promise of America (2006). His Developing Successful College Writing Programs was published in 1989, and his latest book, with Norbert Elliot and Irvin Peckham, Very Like a Whale: The Assessment of  Writing Programs is being published in 2015. He is also coeditor of three essay collections for the  MLA and SIU presses. His work has recently been recognized by the publication of Writing Assessment in the 21st Century: Essays in Honor of Edward M. White (2012) and  by the 2011 Exemplar Award from the CCCC.
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Cassie A. Wright
Cassie A. Wright is a Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University, where she also serves on the Curriculum Committee, and works as a writing and digital media consultant in the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking. She has helped design the assessment protocol for Stanfords Notation in Science Communication, a communication across the disciplines eportfolio initiative supporting undergraduate technical and professional writing. Her primary research interests focus on composition pedagogy, writing program administration, and assessment. Her previous published work concerns sports media’s pedagogical role in constructing desirable gendered subjectivities; she has a forthcoming first-year reader on sports media for Fountainhead Press’s V-Series and teaches composition courses at Stanford currently focused on sports media and international sport policy and diplomacy rhetorics.
Table of Contents
ADDRESSING ESL CONCERNS IN ASSIGNING WRITING
PART II RESPONDING
3 Ways of Responding to Student Writing PURPOSES AND EFFECTS OF RESPONDING AUTHORITY, RESPONSIBILITY, AND CONTROLRESPONDING TO DRAFTSUSING STUDENT RESPONSE GROUPS (PEER REVIEW) SAMPLE STUDENT PAPER IN TWO DRAFTSResponding to "Explorer Post 14: Not Intellectually Prepared" Responding to the Revised "Explorer Post 14: The New World" RESPONDIN G TO COLLABORATIVE WRITIN G FOSTERIN G SELF-ASSESS MENTHANDLING THE PAPER LOADA Note on Presentation Copy
4 Using Assessment as Part of Teaching
ASSESSMENT AND STUDENT MOTIVATION MET HODO LOGIES OF SCORIN G WRITIN G: HOLISTIC, ANA LYTIC, AND PRIMARY TRAITUSING HOLISTI C SCORING GUIDES TO IMPROVE ASSIGNMENTSSample Scoring Guide 1: 6-Point Scale for Assigned Topic Sample Scoring Guide 2: 2-Point Scale for Research-Based WritingSample Scoring Guide 3: Close ReadingSample Scoring Guide 4: Multiple Trait Scoring for Rhetorical Analysis USING SCORING GUIDES AS PART OF TEACHING WRITINGPART III EVALUATING5 Grading Writing Using Holistic Scoring GuidesEVALUATING IMPROMPTU WRITING BASED ON PERSONAL EXPERIENCEEssay Test 1: Personal Experience Assignment Essay Test 2: Personal Experience Assignment 2 EVALUATIN G IMPROMPTU WRITING BASED ON GIVEN TEXTSEssay Test 3: Text-Based Assignment 1Essay Test 4: Text-Based Assignment 2NOTES ON IMPROMPTU WRITING FOR ASSESSMENT 6 Using Portfolios A BRIEF HISTORY OF PORTFOLIOS AND THEIR EVALUATIONproblems with holistic portfolio scoringKEYS TO THE PHASE 2 METHOD: GOALS STATEMENTS AND THE REFLECTIVE LETTEThe Importance of Goals Statements The Importance of the Student Reflective Letter TEACHER -GRADED COURSE PORTFOLIOSScoring Portfolios Based on the Reflective LetterSTAFF-GRADED COURSE PORTFOLIOSContent of the PortfolioLeaving or Removing Original Grades and CommentsScoring ProceduresCriteria for Scoring ReliablyAppeals Procedures SAMPLE GOALS STATEMENTSCalifornia State University, San Bernardino, Department of English Goals for English MajorsNorthern Arizona University Goals for English 105Arizona State University Writing Programs Course Goals, Objectives, and OutcomesUniversity of Arizona, Electrical and Computer Engineering Writing Outcomes 7 Writing Programs and EvaluationASSESSMENT AND WRITIN G PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION: PLACEMENT, DIAGNOSTIC, EXIT , AND PROFICIENCY TESTInstructor PlacementCommittee PlacementDIRECTED SELF-PLACEMENTADMISSIONS AND TRANSFER CREDITWRITIN G ASSESS MENT ACROSS THE DIS CIPLINESUSING IMPROMPTU WRITING AND GROUP SCORING FOR RESEARCHPROGRAM EVALUATION IN THE FUTUREEPILOGUEAppendix: Important Educational Policies for Composition TeachersGOALS STATEMENTS AND FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION DIGITAL WRITIN G AND TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY LITERACIESESL AND SECOND-LANGUAGE WRITINGWPA OUTCOMES STATEMENT FOR FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION (V3.0)IndexProduct Updates
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