Uneasy writing: The defining moments of high-stakes literacy testing

Assessing Writing

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 157-173

  Luce Kapler, Rebecca ^a   Klinger, Don ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Large scale testing; Literacy; Student perceptions; Writing assessment; Writing across the curriculum

Indexed keywords

EID: 28544439750     PISSN: 10752935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asw.2005.08.002     Document Type: Article

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