While many two-and four-year institutions have pivoted to directed self-placement (DSP) as
a response to ethical and social justice concerns (Toth, 2019), at Cochise College, DSP was …

The question of who is the basic writer threads the history of Basic Writing, characterizing
many disciplinary tensions and concerns. When traced to Basic Writing's beginnings as part …

The Journal of Writing Assessment (JWA) has embraced the idea of Special Issues (SI) as a
way of bringing together outstanding scholarship around a pressing issue for writing …

I approach this commentary as an editor of the other major writing assessment journal:
Assessing Writing. The Journal of Writing Assessment and Assessing Writing share similar …

Reliability and validity are two important topics that have been studied for many decades in
the educational measurement field, including discussions of Writing Studies' subfield of …

Consideration of the intersections of humanistic and empirical traditions of research are
important, especially now with recent emphasis on fairness and consequences of score use …