Looking Back as We Look Forward: Historicizing Writing Assessment.

Yancey, Kathleen Blake

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ERIC Number: EJ581355

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Looking Back as We Look Forward: Historicizing Writing Assessment.

Yancey, Kathleen Blake

College Composition and Communication, v50 n3 p483-503 Feb 1999

Offers an account of three "waves" of writing assessment: objective tests, holistic scoring, and portfolios. Scrutinizes these modes of assessment for how they can serve needs beyond the institutional demands of sorting and selecting students, to discover what they can tell educators about writing, teaching, and courses and programs. (SR)

Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Trends, Higher Education, Holistic Evaluation, Objective Tests, Portfolio Assessment, Student Evaluation, Writing (Composition), Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests

Publication Type: Historical Materials; Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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Note: Theme: A Usable Past: "CCC" at 50.