Karen, you might find helpful the WPA (Council of Writing Program
Administrators) Outcomes statement for first-year writing courses. I've
found it useful myself in thinking about what it is we might be assessing
after a first-year course. Best, Betsy Sargent
http://www.cas.ilstu.edu/English/Hesse/outcomes.html
At 11:55 AM 12/12/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Inkshedders,
>
>I'm really out of the research loop these days, so I'm hoping some of you
folks can suggest sources for recent composition research on the assessment
of writing skills at the secondary and college level.
>
>The kind of research I'm looking for would be similar to that discussed in
Cooper and Odell's Evaluating Writing: Describing, Measuring Judging.
>
>I need this info for a collaborative project between Ontario Colleges of
Applied Arts and Technology and Secondary schools I'm considering
participating in. The project will look at identiifying first-year writing
requirements for Colleges and relating those requirements to Secondary
School writing descriptors.
>
>According to the sponsors, the project would, among other things,
>
>-provide an inventory, analysis, and description of existing writing
assignments and practices in Ontario colleges and in secondary schools,
>
>-provide a set of writing exemplars and descriptors using scales and
anchor papers, including those for ESL
>
>Thanks in advance for any input ( articles, books, names of researchers I
could contact) you can give me.
>
>Karen
>
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