Recent Changes - Search:



edit SideBar

References


Research findings | Writing Placement


Bers, Trudy H.; Kerry E. Smith (1990), Assessing assessment programs: The theory and practice of examining reliability and validity of a writing placement test. Community College Review, 18 (3), 17–27.

Black, Laurel; Donald A. Daiker; Jeffrey Sommers; Gail Stygal (1992), Handbook of writing portoflio assessment: A program for college placement. ERIC Document Reproduction Service, ED 350 617.

Blakesley, David (2002), Directed self-placement in the university. WPA: Writing Program Administration 25.2, 9–39.

Blakesley, David; Erin J. Harvey; Erica J. Reynolds (2003), Southern Illinois University Carbondale as an institutional model: The English 100/101 stretch and directed self-placement program. In Daniel Royer; Roger Gilles (Eds.), Directed self-placement: Principles and practices (207–241), Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Breland, Hunter M. (1977), Group comparisons for the Test of Standard Written English. ERIC Document Reproduction Service, ED 146 228.

Bridgeman, Brent (1991), Essays and multiple-choice tests as predictors of college freshman GPA. Research in Higher Education 32.3, 319–332.

Clark, Michael (1983), Evaluating writing in an academic setting. In Patricia L. Stock (Ed.), Fforum: Essays on theory and practice in the teaching of writing (59–79), Upper Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook.

Cornell, Cynthia E.; Robert D. Newton (2003), The case of a small liberal arts university: Directed self-placement at De Pauw. In Daniel Royer; Roger Gilles (Eds.), Directed self-placement: Principles and practices (149–178), Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Daiker, Donald A; Jeff Sommers; Gail Stygall (1996), The pedagogical implications of a college placement portfolio. In Edward M. White, William D. Lutz, & Sandra Kamusikiri (Eds.), Assessment of writing: Politics, policies, practices (257–270); New York: Modern Language Association of America.

Daniel Royer; Roger Gilles (Eds.) (2003), Directed self-placement: Principles and practices, Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Elbow, Peter (1996), Writing assessment in the twenty-first century: A utopian view. In Lynn Bloom; Donald Daiker; Edward White (Eds.), Composition in the 21st century: Crisis and change (83–100), Kresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Elbow, Peter (2003), Directed self-placement in relation to assessment: Shifting the crunch from entrance to exit. In Daniel J. Royer; Roger Gilles (Eds.), Directed self-placement: Principles and practices (15–30). Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.

Frick, Jane: Karen Fulton (1991), Promises kept and broken: Holistically scored impromptu writing exams. ERIC Document Reproduction Service, ED 333 449.

Galbato, Linda; Mimi Markus (1995), A comparison study of three methods of evaluating student writing ability for student placement in introductory English courses. Journal of Applied Research in Community College, 2 (2), 153–167.

Grego, Rhonda C.; Nancy S. Thompson (1995), The writing studio program: Reconfiguring basic writing/freshman composition. WPA: Writing Program Administration 19.1–2, 66–79.

Grego, Rhonda C.; Nancy S. Thompson (1996), Repositioning remediation: Renegotiating composition’s work in the academy. College Composition and Communication 47.1, 62–84.

Hackman, Judith D.; Paula Johnson (1981), Using standardized test scores for placement in college English courses: A new look at an old problem. Research in the Teaching of English 15.3, 275–279.

Hanson, Linda K. (1996), Placement for success: The writing program placement/credit portfolio. In Trudy W. Banta et al. (Eds.), Assessment in practice: Putting principles ot work on college campuses (199–203), San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Haswell, Richard H. (November, 2004), Writing placement in college: A research synopsis. http://comppile.tamucc.edu/writingplacementresearch.htm.

Haswell, Richard H.; Susan Wyche-Smith (1994), Adventuring into writing assessment. College Composition and Communication 45.2, 220–236.

Haswell, Richard H.; Susan Wyche-Smith (1996), A two-tier rating procedure for placement essays. In Trudy W. Banta et al. (Eds.), Assessment in practice: Putting principles ot work on college campuses (204–207), San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Hindman, Jane E. (1994), Letting students in on the secrets of evaluation and placement. ERIC Document Reproduction Service, ED 375 402.

Howard, Rebecca Moore (2000), Assumptions and applications of student self-assessment. In Jane Bowman Smith and Kathleen Blake Yancey (Eds.), Student self-assessment and development in writing: A collaborative inquiry (35–58), Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Hughes, Ronald Elliott; Carlene H. Nelson (1991), Placement scores and placement pracctices: An empirical analysis. Community College Review 19.1, 42–46.

Huot, Brian (1994), Beyond the classroom: Using portfolios to assess writing. In Black, Laurel; Donald A. Daiker; Jeffrey Sommers; Gail Stygall (Eds.), New directions in portfolio assessment: Reflective practice, critical theory; and large-scale scoring (325–334); Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook.

Huot, Brian (2002), (Re)articulating writing assessment for teaching and learning (pp. 156–163). Logan, UT: Utah State University.

Huot, Brian (1994), A survey of college and university writing placement practices. Writing Program Administration 17.3, 49–67.

Janger, Matthew (1997), A statistical analysis of student progress and achievement in the pilot writing project at City College of New York. ERIC Document Reproduction Service, ED 416 805.

Larose, Simon; Donald U. Robertson; Roland Roy; Fredric Legault (1998). Nonintellectual learning factors as determinants for success in college. Research in Higher Education 39.3, 275–297.

Leonhardy, Galen, & William Condon (2001), Exploring the difficult cases: In the cracks of writing assessment, In Richard H. Haswell (Ed.), Beyond outcomes: Assessment and instruction with a university writing program (pp. 65–80). Ablex,

Lowe, Teres J; Brian Huot (1997), Using KIRIS writing portfolios to place students in first-year composition at the University of Louisville. Kentucky English Bulletin 46, 46–64.

McKendy, Thomas (1992), Locally developed writing tests and the validity of holistic scoring, Research in the Teaching of English, 26.2, 149–166.

McKendy, Thomas (1990), Legitimizing peer response: A recycling project for placement essays. College Composition and Communication 41.1, 89–91.

Meyer, Russell J. (1982), Take-home placement tests: A preliminary report. College English 44.5, 506–510.

Nicolay, Theresa Freda (2002), Placement and instruction in context: Situating writing writhin a first-year program. WPA: Writing Program Administration 25.3, 41–60.

Pinter, Robbie; Ellen Sims (2003), Directed self-placement at Belmont University. In In Daniel Royer; Roger Gilles (Eds.), Directed self-placement: Principles and practices (107–125), Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Robertson, Alice (1994), Teach, not test: A look at a new writing placement procedure. WPA: Writing Program Administration 18.1–2, 56–63.

Royer, Daniel J.; Roger Gilles (1998), Directed self-placement: An attitude of orientation. College Composition and Communication 50.1, 54–70.

Shell, Duane F.; Carolyn Colvin Murphy; Roger Bruning (1986), Self-efficacy and outcome expectancy: Motivational aspects of reading and writing performance. ERIC Document Reproduction Service, ED 278 969.

Shermis, Mark D.; Jill Burstein (Eds.) (2003), Automated essay scoring: A cross-disciplinary perspective. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Smith, William L. (1993), Assessing the reliability and adequacy of using holistic scoring of essays as a college composition placement technique. In Williamson, Michael M.; Brian Huot (Eds.), Validating holistic scoring for writing assessment: Theoretical and empirical foundations (142–205), Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Stock, William P.; Juan M. Flores; Linnea M. Aycock (1986), A study of English placement test subscores and their use in assigning CSU, Fresno freshmen to beginning English courses. ERIC Document Reproduction Service, ED 289 453.

Whitman, A. D. (1927), The selective value of the examinations of the College Entrance Examination Board. School and Society 25 (April), 524–525.

Willard-Traub, Margaret; Emily Decker; Rebecca Reed; Jerome Johnston (1999), The development of large-scale portfolio placement assessment at the University of Michigan: 1992–1998. Assessing Writing 6.1, 41–84.


Research findings | Writing Placement


Edit - History - Print - Recent Changes - Search
Page last modified on November 23, 2005, at 08:17 PM