Reframing Writing Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning

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A Nation at Risk 25, 52 A Test of Leadership. See Spellings Report accountability 7n1, 26, 29, 33–35, 37, 69, 105, 146–50, 161–162, 170, 174, 184 accreditation 3, 27–33, 112, 118, 124–26, 160 Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) 28n4, 130, 133–36 accrediting agencies 6, 27–33, 124–25, 130, 137 ACCUPLACER 3, 49, 112–13 Achieve, Inc. 7, 13, 38, 83, 84, 98, 146, 147, 148, 172, 182, 183 ACT 35–36, 49, 83, 86, 98, 171, 182, 188 administrative approach. See technocratic approach Alinsky, Saul 89–91, 97 alliance building 11, 88–99, 103, 135– 36, 152–53, 157–58, 189–90 American Diploma Project (ADP) 7, 13, 38, 84, 171 Anson, Chris 100–101, 164 assessment, purposes and audiences 35–36, 37, 39, 40, 56–57, 58, 63–64, 66, 72, 82, 103, 107, 131, 135, 155, 161–65, 188 Assessment Purposes Matrix 36–39 Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 84–85, 104, 168, 171–74, 183 Barrett, Craig R. 147–48 Bean, John 124–29 Belanoff, Pat 49, 111 Carey, James 99–100 case studies 111–44 classical rhetoric 42, 42n1, 44, 56–58, 62 college and career readiness 19, 40, 81–84, 89, 98, 147, 166, 172, 177, 179–80, 181–82, 183 College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) 47–48 Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) 1, 2, 3, 171, 182 Common Core State Standards Initiative 98, 158, 182 common school movement 5, 20 common sense 10, 14, 18–19, 40, 177, 179 communication plan matrix 107 composition and rhetoric 9, 36, 42, 53, 57, 97, 106, 118, 143, 163 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) 32, 47, 92, 190 Conger, Shamila Basu 147, 148, 150, 181 Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) 42, 97, 175, 188, 189, 190 cross–institutional assessment 171–74 Crow, Steve 33–34 curriculum 2, 3, 41, 42, 44, 45–46, 50, 74, 87, 94, 110, 114, 125, 127–29, 131, 139, 153, 154, 170, 182 data–gathering assessment 175–77 Department of Education 25, 27, 28, 29, 32, 104, 105, 171 Don’t Think of an Elephant 167 economic success 14–19, 21–22, 23–26, 33, 38, 81, 85, 146–47, 180 Education Trust 83, 146, 7n1 Elbow, Peter 49, 111 Elementary and Secondary Reauthorization Act. See No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Eliot, Charles 42–43, 71, 159 entrance exams 42, 43–44, 47–48, 55 framing 10–11, 15–19, 19n1, 40–42, 94, 103, 104, 167, 179–80 Ganz, Marshall 88, 89 IND EX 206 Reframing Gramsci, Antonio 18 guided self–placement 86 Hanks, William 81 Hansen, Kristine 101 Harris, Joseph 103 Haswell, Richard 100, 184 Herrington, Anne 116 Hertog, James 17 Higher Education Act (HEA) 29, 32 Higher Learning Commission 33, 36 honeycomb model of assessment 185 Huot, Brian 34–35, 101, 102n1, 164 impromptu essay exams 43, 49, 67, 111, 113 Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) 89, 91 inter–institutional assessment 168–71 Krugman, Paul 14–19 Lakoff, George 93, 104, 167, 183 language 16–17, 41–42, 43, 45, 49, 54–56, 58–62, 60n4, 75, 103–5, 157, 167–68, 184, 188 large–scale assessment 38, 50, 68, 71, 73, 157, 162, 165–66 Liberal Education: America’s Promise (LEAP) 84–85 Lingenfelter, Paul 14 literacy 7–8, 36–37, 58, 61, 73, 75, 82, 163–65, 167, 170 local assessment 2, 3, 33, 37, 87, 104– 5, 130, 137, 150, 164–71, 173, 190 Mann, Horace 5 McLeod, Douglas 17 measurement scales 46–47 multiple–choice testing 48–49, 67, 114, 153 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 24, 49, 182 National Commission on Accountability in Higher Education 13 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) 42, 42n1, 54, 97, 191 national progress 5, 7, 14, 19, 20–23, 24, 26, 40, 45, 180 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) 138–39 negotiated rule making 28, 32 networked infrastructure 186–87 No Child Left Behind (NCLB) 8, 23n3, 24 organizing. See alliance building outcomes–based assessment 112–15, 133 pedagogy 1, 9, 11, 62, 63, 73, 74, 111, 114, 130, 139, 160, 164, 188, 190, 195, 206 portfolios 49–50, 66–70, 77, 78, 80, 111–24, 130–35, 144 positivism 47, 72, 126 Priddy, Lynn 36, 165, 184 process theory 62–63, 66–67, 70 productive citizenship 5, 13–14, 19–23, 25–26, 81, 85, 99, 180 psychometrics 11, 41, 48, 50, 53, 56, 67–68, 71–72, 73, 79 purpose of education...