Assessing Writing

Assessing Writing is a refereed international journal providing a forum for ideas, research and practice on the assessment of written language. Assessing Writing publishes articles, book reviews, conference reports, and academic exchanges concerning writing assessments of all kinds, including traditional ('direct' and standardised forms of) testing of writing, alternative performance assessments (such as portfolios), workplace sampling and classroom assessment. The journal focuses on all stages of the writing assessment process, including needs evaluation, assessment creation, implementation, and validation, and test development; it aims to value all perspectives on writing assessment as process, product and politics (test takers and raters; test developers and agencies; educational administrations; and political motivations). The journal is interested in review essays of key issues in the theory and practice of writing assessment.Assessing Writing embraces internationalism and will attempt to reflect the concerns of teachers, researchers and writing assessment specialists around the world, whatever their linguistic background. Articles are published in English and normally relate to the assessment of English language writing, but articles in English about the assessment of writing in languages other than English will be considered. While Assessing Writing frequently publishes articles about the assessment of writing in the fields of composition, writing across the curriculum, and TESOL (the teaching of English to speakers of other languages), it welcomes articles about the assessment of writing in professional and academic areas outside these fields.The scope of the journal is wide, and embraces all work in the field at all age levels, in large-scale (international, national and state) as well as classroom, educational and non-educational institutional contexts, writing and programme evaluation, writing and critical literacy, and the role of technology in the assessment of writing. Through this scholarly exchange, Assessing Writing contributes to the development of excellence in the assessment of writing in all contexts, and, in so doing, to the teaching and appreciation of writing.

Assessing Writing期刊中文简介

评估写作是一种国际性的参考期刊，它提供了一个关于评估书面语言的观点、研究和实践的论坛。评估写作发表文章、书评、会议报告和学术交流，涉及各种写作评估，包括传统的（直接的和标准化的）写作测试、替代性绩效评估（如组合）、工作场所抽样和课堂评估。该期刊关注写作评估过程的各个阶段，包括需求评估、评估创建、实施和验证以及测试开发；其目的是将写作评估的所有观点作为过程、产品和政治（考生和评分者；测试开发人员和机构；教育行政部门；以及政治动机）。该期刊对写作评价理论和实践中关键问题的评论文章很感兴趣。评估写作包括国际主义，并试图反映世界各地的教师、研究人员和写作评估专家的担忧，无论他们的语言背景如何。文章以英语发表，通常与英语写作评估有关，但将考虑使用英语以外的其他语言进行写作评估的英语文章。虽然评估写作经常发表关于作文、跨课程写作和TESOL（向其他语言使用者教授英语）领域的写作评估的文章，但它欢迎在这些领域之外的专业和学术领域发表关于写作评估的文章。该杂志的范围很广，涵盖了各个年龄层、大规模（国际、国家和国家）以及课堂、教育和非教育机构环境、写作和方案评估、写作和批判性识字以及技术在写作评估中的作用等领域的所有工作。通过这一学术交流，评估写作有助于在所有上下文中评估写作的优秀发展，并在这方面促进写作的教学和欣赏。