In Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies, Asao B. Inoue theorizes classroom writing
assessment as a complex system that is “more than” its interconnected elements. To explain …

This review examines directed self-placement, a placement tool that provides students with
information about curricular options and asks each student to self-select into any first-year …

How do teachers define failure when learning to write? We don't ask the question often
enough. In this article, I attempt to offer a definition and critique of the nature and production …

Abstract While Writing Studies scholarship has interrogated race and college writing
instruction, we argue that it still needs to substantially build upon this work in systematic …

Conclusions: Many community colleges implementing DSP are motivated by ethical or
social justice concerns. There is promising evidence that DSP can be successfully …

As national reform efforts are reshaping community college policies with the goal of
improving degree completion rates, many two-year colleges are rethinking longstanding …

This article seeks to address the need for research supporting localization efforts in
placement assessment. We argue that as a highly technical communication endeavor …

This article provides a polyvocal narrative of the development, initial assessment, and
ongoing revision of an Informed Self-Placement (ISP) process initially implemented during …

Abstract Directed Self-Placement (DSP) is one placement model that has been implemented
in various composition programs in the US but has yet to be investigated thoroughly in …

Two-year colleges are experiencing rapid change, much of which is driven by reform-
minded higher education researchers, philanthropists, and policymakers seeking to improve …