WPA: Writing Program Administration

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September 2025

  1. Sep 2025 web
    Working Toward Fairness in Program-Wide Tools: A Collaborative, Locally Grounded, Flexible, and Descriptive Assessment Heuristic for First-Year Writing ↗
    Mary K. Stewart
    first-year composition collaborative writing assessment
  2. Sep 2025 web
    From Gatekeeper to Informant: The Roles of Academic Advisors in Aligning Directed Self-Placement ↗
    Theresa Tinkle; Michelle Sprouse; Jason Godfrey; Andrew Moos; Laura Romaine
    assessment
  3. Sep 2025 web
    Beyond Appendices: Equity and Directed Self-Placement ↗
    Amy Vidali; Sarah Michals
    assessment race and writing

April 2025

  1. Apr 2025 web
    Toward an Intellectually Honest Evaluation of Writing Administration’s Quotidian Labor ↗
    Daniel Libertz; Joshua Barsczewski
    assessment

April 2024

  1. Apr 2024 web OA PDF
    Moving Away from ACT for Placement: A Three-Year Journey to Implementing Directed Self-Placement ↗
    Heather N. Hill
    assessment

April 2023

  1. Apr 2023 web OA PDF
    The Adoption of Contract Grading in a University Writing Program: Navigating Disruptions to Assessment Ecologies ↗
    Sarah Faye; Erika I-Tremblay; Dan Melzer; DJ Quinn; Lisa Sperber
    assessment

September 2022

  1. Sep 2022 web OA PDF
    Standing Outside Success: A Re-Evaluation of WPA Failure during the COVID-19 Pandemic ↗
    Justin H. Cook; Jackie Hoermann-Elliot
    assessment
  2. Sep 2022 web OA PDF
    Directed Self-Placement and the Figured World of College Writing ↗
    Kristine Johnson
    first-year composition assessment

September 2020

  1. Sep 2020 web OA PDF
    Toward a Rhetorical Model of Directed Self-Placement ↗
    Zhaozhe Wang
    rhetorical criticism assessment

September 2019

  1. Sep 2019 web OA PDF
    Student Expectation Auditing and Mapping: A Method for Eliciting Student Input in Writing Program Assessment ↗
    Mathew Gomes; Wenjuan Ma
    assessment writing program administration

June 2019

  1. Jun 2019 web OA PDF
    Commemorating Community: Forty Years of Writing Assessment in WPA: Writing Program Administration ↗
    Shane A. Wood; Norbert Elliot
    assessment writing program administration

September 2018

  1. Sep 2018 web OA PDF
    Viewing Directed Self-Placement Through a Multilingual Multicultural Transdisciplinary and Ethical Lens ↗
    Marie Webb
    assessment race and writing

September 2017

  1. Sep 2017 web OA PDF
    A Case Study Exploring the Connections between Locally Defined Writing and Student Engagement: Toward a Think Little Model for Assessment and Accountability ↗
    Diane Kelly-Riley
    assessment qualitative research

June 2017

  1. Jun 2017 web OA PDF
    Toward Inclusive and Multi-Method Writing Assessment for College Students with Learning Disabilities: The (Universal) Story of Max ↗
    Steven J. Corbett
    assessment

April 2017

  1. Apr 2017 web OA PDF
    How Do You Know That Works?": A Mixed Methods Approach to Writing Program Assessment ↗
    Author data unavailable
    assessment writing program administration empirical research

September 2016

  1. Sep 2016 web OA PDF
    Thinking Ecologically and Ethically about Assessment ↗
    Katrina L. Miller
    assessment

April 2016

  1. Apr 2016 web OA PDF
    Taming Big Data through Agile Approaches to Instructor Training and Assessment: Managing Ongoing Professional Development in Large First-Year Writing Programs ↗
    Author data unavailable
    first-year composition assessment professional writing

April 2015

  1. Apr 2015 web OA PDF
    Making the Most of Networked Communication in Writing Program Assessment ↗
    Sonya Lancaster; Heather Bastian; Justin Ross Sevenker; E.A. Williams
    assessment writing program administration

September 2014

  1. Sep 2014 web OA PDF
    Social Contexts of Writing Assessment: Toward an Ecological Construct of the Rater ↗
    Dylan B. Dryer; Irvin Peckham
    assessment

April 2014

  1. Apr 2014 web OA PDF
    Writing Program Assessment and the Mission-Driven Institution ↗
    Kristine Johnson
    assessment writing program administration

September 2013

  1. Sep 2013 web OA PDF
    Taking the Long View: Investigating the History of a Writing Program’s Teacher Evaluation System ↗
    Laura J. Davies
    teacher development assessment

April 2013

  1. Apr 2013 web OA PDF
    Review Essay: To Catch Lightning in a Bottle: Quests for Responsible Writing Assessment and for Definition of Our Discipline ↗
    Chris Thaiss
    assessment book reviews

September 2011

  1. Sep 2011 web OA PDF
    Are We Having the Effect We Want? Implementing Outcomes Assessment in an Academic English Language-Support Unit Using a Multi-component Approach ↗
    Li-Shih Huang
    assessment

April 2011

  1. Apr 2011 web OA PDF
    Addressing Instructor Ambivalence about Peer Review and Self-Assessment ↗
    Pamela Bedore; Brian O’Sullivan
    assessment
  2. Apr 2011 web OA PDF
    Reinventing Writing Assessment: How the Conversation Is Shifting ↗
    William Condon
    assessment

September 2010

  1. Sep 2010 web OA PDF
    Assess Locally, Validate Globally: Heuristics for Validating Local Writing Assessments ↗
    Chris W. Gallagher
    assessment

September 2009

  1. Sep 2009 web OA PDF
    “What Do WPAs Need to Know about Writing Assessment? An Immodest Proposal” ↗
    Chris W. Gallagher
    assessment

April 2007

  1. Apr 2007 web OA PDF
    Becoming the Learner: Collaborative Inquiry, Reflection, and Writing- Program Assessment ↗
    Erik Juergensmeyer; Karen P. Peirce
    collaborative writing assessment
  2. Apr 2007 web OA PDF
    Beyond Outcomes: Assessment and Instruction within a Writing Program ↗
    Russel K. Durst
    assessment
  3. Apr 2007 web OA PDF
    Coming to Terms: Theorizing Writing Assessment in Composition Studies ↗
    Deb Martin
    assessment

September 2005

  1. Sep 2005 web OA PDF
    Beyond Quality Control: Writing Assessment and Adjunct Accountability at a Small Public University ↗
    Author data unavailable
    assessment labor and working conditions
  2. Sep 2005 web OA PDF
    Review of What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing ↗
    Author data unavailable
    teacher development assessment book reviews

April 2005

  1. Apr 2005 web OA PDF
    Learning to Ride the Waves: Making Decisions about Placement Testing ↗
    Susanmaire Harrington
    assessment
  2. Apr 2005 web OA PDF
    Review of (Re)Articulating Writing Assessment for Teaching and Learning ↗
    Shane Borrowman
    teacher development assessment book reviews

September 2004

  1. Sep 2004 web OA PDF
    A Case for Writing Program Evaluation ↗
    Laura Brady
    assessment

September 2002

  1. Sep 2002 web OA PDF
    Defining Assessment as Research: Moving from Obligations to Opportunities ↗
    Peggy O’Neill; Ellen Schendel; Brian Huot
    assessment

April 2002

  1. Apr 2002 web OA PDF
    Directed Self-Placement in the University ↗
    David Blakesley
    assessment

April 2000

  1. Apr 2000 web OA PDF
    Fostering Liberatory Teaching: A Proposal for Revising Instructional Assessment Practices ↗
    Jane E Hindman
    teacher development assessment

April 1997

  1. Apr 1997 web OA PDF
    Outside Review of Writing Portfolios: An Online Evaluation ↗
    Michael Allen; Jane Frick; Jeff Sommers; Kathleen Blake Yancey
    assessment portfolios book reviews

September 1995

  1. Sep 1995 web OA PDF
    Closing the Circle: Outcomes Assessment, TQM [Total Quality Management] and the WPA ↗
    Christopher C. Burnham; Cheryl Nims
    assessment

April 1995

  1. Apr 1995 web OA PDF
    Review. Teaching and Assessing Writing by Edward M. White ↗
    Lisa J McClure
    teacher development assessment

September 1994

  1. Sep 1994 web OA PDF
    Shooting Niagara: Making Portfolio Assessment Serve Instruction at a State University ↗
    Richard H. Haswell; Lisa Johnson-Shull; Susan Wyche-Smith
    assessment portfolios

September 1992

  1. Sep 1992 web OA PDF
    Validity and Reliability Issues in the Direct Assessment of Writing ↗
    Karen L Greenberg
    assessment

April 1991

  1. Apr 1991 web OA PDF
    A New Approach to Advanced ESL Placement Testing ↗
    Ilona Leki
    assessment multilingual writers
  2. Apr 1991 web OA PDF
    The Writing Program Administration Evaluation: A Recent Case History ↗
    Peter G Beidler
    assessment writing program administration
  3. Apr 1991 web OA PDF
    Requesting a Consultant-Evaluation Visit ↗
    Susan H McLeod
    assessment

September 1990

  1. Sep 1990 web OA PDF
    Writing Programs Outside the English Department: An Assessment of a Five-Year Program ↗
    Judith Q. McMullen; J. Douglas Wellman
    assessment

April 1987

  1. Apr 1987 web OA PDF
    Assessment Topics: The Importance of the Rhetorical Frame ↗
    Christine A Hult
    rhetorical criticism assessment
  2. Apr 1987 web OA PDF
    Writing Assessment: Purposes, Problems, and Possibilities—A Review Essay ↗
    Barbara Weaver
    assessment book reviews

September 1986

  1. Sep 1986 web OA PDF
    Writing Assessment: An Evaluation Paradigm ↗
    Harvey Wiener
    assessment