Written communication is considered one of the most critical competencies for academic and
career success, as evident in surveys of stakeholders from higher education and the …

A key instructional goal of English language arts instruction is teaching students to read and
interpret complex literary texts. This report reviews the literature on the development and …

ABSTRACT In the United States, opposition to traditional standardized tests is widespread,
particularly obvious in the admissions context but also evident in elementary and secondary …

This article argues for a conceptualization of school writing that emphasizes how cognitive
and sociocultural factors interact. In academic, professional, and affinity-based communities …

This study compared gender groups on the processes used in writing essays in an online
assessment. Middle‐school students from four grades responded to essays in two …

This article exemplifies how assessment design might be grounded in theory, thereby
helping to strengthen validity claims. Spanning work across multiple related projects, the …

In this paper, we describe an effort to develop and evaluate an innovative formative
assessment to gather evidence about middle school students' argumentation skills …

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical case for the value of scenario-based
assessment (SBA) in the measurement of students' written argumentation skills. First, we …

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive literature review on the development of key
argumentation skills to lay a foundation for a framework of the key practice, discuss and …

Advocating for measuring a broadened construct of writing ability, scenario-based
assessment (SBA) has recently been used to assess writing ability. While SBA for writing …