Appraising Translingualism

College English Jan 2016

Dylan B. Dryer

Abstract

Decades of research on rater training and scoring practices demonstrates that raters' preferences for writing quality are malleable; for instance, it is customary to "calibrate" raters' scoring decisions through documents like scoring protocols and rubrics. This essay argues that while rubrics from contemporary large-scale writing assessments (and the local assessments they inspire) maintain retrograde assumptions about language variation, relatively small adjustments to these rubrics could help raters and candidates establish what Joseph Williams once called "the ordinary kind of contract" that readers and writers routinely observe anywhere outside of testing contexts.

Journal: College English
Published: 2016-01-01
DOI: 10.58680/ce201627659
Open Access: Closed
Topics: assessment translingualism

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