Writing assessment

Writing assessment refers to an area of study that contains theories and practices that guide the evaluation of a writer's performance or potential through a writing task. Writing assessment can be considered a combination of scholarship from composition studies and measurement theory within educational assessment.^[1] Writing assessment can also refer to the technologies and practices used to evaluate student writing and learning.^[2] An important consequence of writing assessment is that the type and manner of assessment may impact writing instruction, with consequences for the character and quality of that instruction.^[3]

^ Behizadeh, Nadia and George Engelhard Jr. "Historical View of the influences of measurement and writing theories on the practice of writing assessment in the United States" Assessing Writing 16 (2011) 189-211.
^ Huot, B. & Neal, M. (2006). Writing assessment: A techno-history. In C. A. MacArthur, S. Graham, & J. Fitzgerald (Eds.), Handbook of Writing Research (pp. 417-432). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
^ Hillocks, G.(2002). The Testing Trap: How State Writing Assessments Control Learning. New York: Teachers College Press.

[1] Behizadeh, Nadia and George Engelhard Jr. "Historical View of the influences of measurement and writing theories on the practice of writing assessment in the United States" Assessing Writing 16 (2011) 189-211.

[2] Huot, B. & Neal, M. (2006). Writing assessment: A techno-history. In C. A. MacArthur, S. Graham, & J. Fitzgerald (Eds.), Handbook of Writing Research (pp. 417-432). New York, NY: Guilford Press.

[3] Hillocks, G.(2002). The Testing Trap: How State Writing Assessments Control Learning. New York: Teachers College Press.

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