A decade of research: Assessing change in the technical communication classroom using online portfolios

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 413-431

  Johnson, Carol ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949110796     PISSN: 00472816     EISSN: 15413780     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/C481-K214-8472-N377     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. B. Huot, (Re)Articulating Writing Assessment for Teaching and Learning, Utah State University Press, Logan, 2002.
2. For new paradigms in writing assessment, see the following: Brian Huot, (Re)Articulating Writing Assessment for Teaching and Learning (Utah State University Press, Logan, 2002); Bob Broad, What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing (Utah State University Press, Logan, 2003);
3. Kathleen Blake Yancey, Postmodernism, Palimpset, and Portfolios: Theoretical Issues in the Representation of Student Work, College Composition and Communication, 55:4, pp. 738-761, 2004, and Patricia Lynne, in Coming To Terms: A Theory of Writing Assessment, (Utah State University Press, Logan, 2004).
4. Criteria for ABET can be found on their website at: < http://www. abet.org/forms.shtml
5. Several authors write about this topic. See Bob Broad's What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing (Utah State University Press, Logan, 2003) and Norbert Elliot's On a Scale: A Social History of Writing Assessment in America (Peter Lang, New York, 2005).
6. American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, and National Council on Measurement in Education, Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing, American Psychological Association, Washington, 1999.
7. R. Camp, New Views of Measurement and New Models for Writing Assessment, in Assessment of Writing: Politics, Policies, and Practices, E. M. White, D. Lutz, and S. Kamusikiri (eds.), MLA, New York, 1996.
8. M. S. Sternglass, Time to Know Them: A Longitudinal Study of Writing and Learning at the College Level, Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, 1997.
9. C. M. Miller, Reuniting Wisdom and Eloquence within the Engineering Curriculum, in Liberal Education in Twenty-First Century Engineering: Responses to ABET/EC2000 Criteria, D. F. Ollis, K. A. Nelly, and H. C. Lugenbiehl (eds.), Lang, New York, p. 49, 2004.
10. C. Johnson and N. Elliot, Portfolio Assessment in Program Evaluation, ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section 2004 Fall Conference, Engineering Workforce for the 21st Century, Digital Proceedings, October 22-23, 2004.
11. J. Prados, G. Peterson, and L. Lattuca, Quality Assurance of Engineering Education through Accreditation: The Impact of Engineering Criteria 2000 and Its Global Influence, Journal of Engineering Education, 94:1, pp. 165-184, 2005.
12. J. Coakley, Placement in English Composition Courses: When "One-Size-Doesn't-Fit-All," Fourteenth International Conference on the First-Year Experience, 2001.
13. N. Elliot, On A Scale: A Social History of Writing Assessment in America, Peter Lang, New York, 2005.
14. N. Elliot, M. Kilduff, and R. Lynch, The Assessment of Technical Writing: A Case Study, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 24:1, pp. 9-36, 1994.
15. N. Coppola, Setting the Discourse Community: Tasks and Assessment for the New Technical Communication Service Course, Technical Communication Quarterly, 8:3, pp. 249-267, 1999.
16. K. B. Yancey, Postmodernism, Palimpset, and Portfolios: Theoretical Issues in the Representation of Student Work, College Composition and Communication, 55:4, pp. 738-761, 2004.
17. B. Broad, What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing, Utah State University Press, Logan, 2003.
18. N. Coppola and N. Elliot, Assessment of Graduate Programs in Technical Communication: Constructing a Model to Engage Complexity, in Assessment in Professional and Technical Communication, J. Allen and M. Hundleby (eds.), SUNY Purchase, New York, forthcoming.
19. D. Dayton and S. A. Bernhardt, Results of a Survey of ATTW Members, 2003, Technical Communication Quarterly, 12:1, pp. 13-43, 2004.
20. H. A. Linstone and M. Turoff, The Delphi Method: Techniques and Applications. Available at: http://www.is.njit.edu/pubs/delphibook/