Assessment of Writing: Politics, Policies, Practices Book

	Preface to the Series
	Introduction	1
	Power and Agenda Setting in Writing Assessment	9
	Writing Assessment in Florida: A Reminiscence	25
	Legal Issues in the Practice and Politics of Assessment in Writing	33
	Response: Why Do We Test Writing?	45
	The Politics of Validity	53
	Essay Reliability: Form and Meaning	76
	Response: The Politics of Methodology	97
	Essayist Literacy and Sociolinguistic Difference	108
	Writing Assessment: Do It Better, Do It Less	120
	New Views of Measurement and New Models for Writing Assessment	135
	Upper-Division Assessment and the Postsecondary Development of Writing Abilities	148
	The Need for Clear Purposes and New Approaches to the Evaluation of Writing-across-the-Curriculum Programs	158
	Response: Testing as Surveillance	174
	African American English and Writing Assessment: An Afrocentric Approach	187
	Gender, Feminism, and Institution-Wide Assessment Programs	204
	The Challenges of Second-Language Writing Assessment	226
	Response: Awareness of Diversity	241
	Computer-Assisted Writing Assessment: The Politics of Science versus the Humanities	249
	The Pedagogical Implications of College Placement Portfolio	257
	Portfolios in the Assessment of Writing: A Political Perspective	271
	Portfolio Approaches to Assessment: Breakthrough or More of the Same?	284
	Response: Assessment as a Site of Contention	301
	Works Cited	305
	Index	333