This paper provides a description of practice outlining changes made to English assessment structures for the purpose of facilitating improved teaching and learning. These changes, which included marking, feedback, reporting, and the evaluation of the efficacy of teaching, were implemented across Years 7 to 10 English classes in an independent…

This article provides an introduction to the kind of computer software that is used to score student writing in some high stakes testing programs, and that is being promoted as a teaching and learning tool to schools. It sketches the state of play with machines for the scoring of writing, and describes how these machines work and what they do.…

Discusses what a month-long seminar on English teaching in Dartmouth in 1966 accomplished and failed to accomplish. Outlines its stance on integrated activities and assessment. Notes questions not raised at the seminar, by default or inevitability. Proposes new questions and possibilities since Dartmouth. (PM)