College Composition and Communication Feb 2009

Online Placement in First-Year Writing

Irvin Peckham

Abstract

This essay describes Louisiana State University’s search for an alternative to available placement protocols. Under the leadership of Les Perelman at MIT, LSU collaborated with four universities to develop iMOAT, a program for administering online assessments of student writing. This essay focuses on LSU’s On-line Challenge, which developed from the iMOAT project. The On-line Challenge combines direct and indirect writing assessments with student choice while freeing students from the constraints of time and place to invite new possibilities for assessing writing.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2009-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc20096969
Open Access
Closed
Topics
first-year composition assessment

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (0)

No articles in this index cite this work.

Cites in this index (0)

No references match articles in this index.

CrossRef global citation count: 4 View in citation network →

Related Articles

  1. Pedagogy Oct 2024
    Navigating Labor-Based Grading Contracts ↗
    Kara K. Larson
    first-year composition assessment race and writing multilingual writers
  2. College English Nov 2016
    Making Classroom Writing Assessment More Visible, Equitable, and Portable through Digital Badging ↗
    Stephanie West-Puckett
    first-year composition assessment qualitative research
  3. College Composition and Communication Feb 2016
    Adventuring into MOOC Writing Assessment: Challenges, Results, and Possibilities ↗
    Denise K. Comer; Edward M. White
    first-year composition assessment multimodality online writing instruction
  4. College Composition and Communication Jun 2013
    Local Assessment: Using Genre Analysis to Validate Directed Self-Placement ↗
    Anne Ruggles Gere; Laura Aull; Moisés Damián Perales Escudero; Zak Lancaster; Elizabeth Vander Lei
    first-year composition writing program administration assessment quantitative research multilingual writers
  5. Computers and Composition Mar 2013
    Valuing the Resources of Infrastructure: Beyond From-Scratch and Off-the-Shelf Technology Options for Electronic Portfolio Assessment in First-Year Writing ↗
    J.S. Dunn; Carrie Luke; David Nassar
    first-year composition assessment