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Dear New Jersey Writing Instructor:

 

The New Jersey Writing Alliance has hosted its sixth annual conference, Grading: Practice and Theory, at Rutgers University.  The Writing Alliance, a group of instructors from New Jersey's secondary schools and colleges, is interested in creating a forum for discussing research, practices, perspectives, and issues about writing across the span of middle and high schools and public and private 2- and 4-year institutions of higher education.

    We thank you for attending the April 22, 2005 conference and for bringing your colleagues from other levels, either within your school, within your district, or across the school-college divide.  We have envisioned this conference as an opportunity to think about how to embed grading and assessment more efficiently and meaningfully within our day-to-day teaching, to compare how we assess at different levels, and to rethink the ways in which we evaluate our students’ learning. 

 

Ed Jones, NJWA Chair

 

2005 NJWA Conference Presentation Materials 

Julie Cheville's Keynote Speech: "Compositional Risk in the Era of Standardized Assessment

  1. Not Giving in to Grading—in Secondary School and College (Pinker and White) Second Term Folder term2 Third Term Folder term3
  2. Accuplacer’s Essay Scoring Technology: When Reliability Does Not Equal Validity (Ed Jones)
  3. Institutional Constraints and Possibilities for Assessment (Al Romano) Essay
  4. Programmatic Assessment of First-Year Writing (Vanner Steinberg) SCORING GUIDE version Assessment Pres  pre-IPIC  Abstract Writing Program Evaluation (Ray Barclay, Jean Graham, Felicia Steele, and Diane Steinberg) WRI 101  First Year Writing Grading Rubric
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  5. Researching Readiness for Composition:  An Assessment Process (Beth Snyder & Leigh Jonaitis)
  6. Institutional Grading Practices in the Rutgers Writing Program (Michael Goeller & Darcy Gioa)
  7. A Grade by Any Other Name (Would Smell as Sweet?):  Using Grades to Support Collaboration, Communication and Self-Assessment (Sally Chandler, Charles Nelson, & Mark Sutton) LR Summary and LR portfolio.
  8. Revise and Explain -- Sarah Bechtold and Margaret Valentine NJWA Handout 2005
  9. Using a Rubric with Partnered High School Seniors and College Freshmen (NIna Ringer, Donna Anderson and Barbara Hartnett)
  10. Peer Reviews Across the HS-College Divide:  A Work in Progress (Diane Wilfrid and Diane Gruenberg)  
  11. Using Rubrics in College-Level Content Area Writing (Kimberly Schirner & Wojtkowicz) Rubric_Sampler (Adobe Acrobat)  "Rubrics" (Power Point)
  12. Using Student Reflection on the Writing Process and Teacher Comments to Improve Student Learning (Heuner) REFLECTION
  13. How Can a C Writer Get a B?  What Counts in the Composition Grade (Kelley Shea)
  14. Writing to Read/Writing to Learn:  Assessing the Reading in the Writing (Gita das Bender)
  15. Portfolio Grading for Creative Writing (Dorothy Altman) Portfolio
  16. Using a Point System to Help Students Take Control of Their Learning (Laurie Lieberman)
  17. Handling the Paper Load with Reflective Practice in the Writing Classroom (Kristen Turner)
  18. Using Self Study and Values Clarification in Designing Outcomes Assessment in the Writing Curriculum: a Case Study (Don Stoll)
  19. Accuplacer’s Use of Artificial Intelligence in Scoring Essays "About Intellimetric"--from Vantage

 

IntelliMetric FIPSE demo: http://coeweb.fiu.edu/fipsedemo/.  This site allows you to submit essays for automated scoring.  One instructor recommends using the IUPUI Short Essay Model, which has yielded the best results for her work with first-year composition students.