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The Journal of Writing Assessment (JWA) is excited to announce the publication of issue 18(2) of JWA. Read more at: escholarship.org/uc/jwa/18/2

We are excited to announce the publication of the fall issue of the JWA Reading List (JWARL). This issue of JWARL presents three reviews. We hope you enjoy the new issue! jwareadinglist.ucdavis.edu

The Journal of Writing Assessment (JWA) is excited to announce the publication of issue 18.1 of JWA. Read more at: escholarship.org/uc/jwa/18/1 #4c25

In “Assessment is Constructed and Contextual” Voss, Branch, and Pfeiffer share how interviews helped them understand student learning outcomes in ways that value minoritized students’ experiential knowledge. Read more: doi.org/10.5070/W4.jwa…

In “Construct Validity and the Demise of the Analytical Writing Placement Examination (AWPE) at the University of California,” Daniel Gross examines the shifts that culminated in the UC Academic Senate’s decision to end its longstanding AWPE. Read more: escholarship.org/uc/item/3gm126…

We are excited to announce the publication of issue 17.2 of JWA! Articles in the issue focus on issues of fairness and equity, especially in writing program assessment and in placement. Read more at: escholarship.org/uc/jwa/17/2

JWA is excited to announce a forthcoming Special Issue about neurodivergence and disability in alternative approaches to writing assessment. Special Issue editors Megan Von Bergen and Andrew Harnish invite your proposals. Read more: escholarship.org/uc/jwa/SINeuro…

In the latest issue of the JWA Reading List, Virginia Schwarz reviews Shane A. Wood’s Teachers Talking Writing: Perspectives on Places, Pedagogies, and Programs. Read more: jwareadinglist.ucdavis.edu/index.php/2024…

In the latest issue of the JWA Reading List, N. Claire Jackson reviews West-Puckett, Caswell, and Banks’ Failing Sideways. Read more: jwareadinglist.ucdavis.edu/index.php/2024…

The Journal of Writing Assessment’s Reading List is thrilled to release our Summer 2024 Issue! Read more: jwareadinglist.ucdavis.edu/index.php/2024…

Check out Sweeney and Colombini’s discussion of directed self-placement on mission-driven college campuses! doi.org/10.5070/W4jwa.…

Check out Kelly A. Whitney and Carolyn Skinner’s “It Takes A Campus” at doi.org/10.5070/W4jwa.…

Check out Kristine Johnson and Sara Vander Bie’s piece, which includes guidance about DSP for multilingual & multicultural populations of international students. doi.org/10.5070/W4jwa.…

Have you seen JWA’s special issue on methods of student self-placement? Check out the introduction from issue co-editors Kate Pantelides and Erin Whittig!

In “Informing Self-Placement,” Toth, Andrus, Onwuzuroha, Clawson, Frasier, Fochs, and Rivera provide a polyvocal narrative of the development, initial assessment, and ongoing revision of an Informed Self-Placement (ISP) process. Read more: doi.org/10.5070/W4jwa.… #4C24

In “After Implementation,” Arnold, Jiang, and Hassel offer a heuristic others can use to evaluate the effectiveness of their own SSP after implementation and demonstrates the value of evaluating SSP processes. Read more: doi.org/10.5070/W4jwa.… #4C24

In "Self-Characterization and the Self-Placement Assessment Ecology," Tinkle, Godfrey, Hammond and Moos ask: What can be learned about SSP’s impacts from the qualitative content of student (self-)reflections and (self-)characterizations? Read more: doi.org/10.5070/W4jwa.… #4C24

Decker and Taormina-Barrientos describe how they revised a Directed Self-Placement survey based on Cavazos and Karaman’s (2021) Translingual Disposition Questionnaire and used Qualtrics to give students feedback on a novel language domain. Read more: doi.org/10.5070/W4jwa.… #4C24

In “(Re)Placing Personalis: A Study of Placement Reform and Self-Construction in Mission-Driven Contexts” Sweeney and Colombini trace and compare efforts to reform placement processes at mission-driven liberal arts institutions. Read more: doi.org/10.5070/W4jwa.… #4C24