Greetings and welcome to the Journal of Writing Assessment’s Reading List!
We are thrilled to release our Fall 2025 Issue, following the publication of the Journal of Writing Assessment’s Volume 18, Issue 2. Along with the new issue, we are also excited to announce a new team:
- Chris Blankenship (Salt Lake Community College)
- Editor
- Associate Editor, Journal of Writing Assessment
- Alexis Teagarden (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth)
- Assistant Editor
- Olivia McMurray (American River College)
- Copy Editor
This issue of JWARL presents three reviews that cover a range of topics in assessment. The first discusses Dan Melzer’s thoughts on writing assessment modalities and guidance for improving feedback. The second examines Asao Inoue’s labor-based grading policies and ways to further increase classroom grading equity for students with disabilities and neurodivergencies. The final review looks at issues of equity and fairness in large-scale standardized testing in the K-12 system in the United States as discussed in this special issue of Educational Assessment. The reviews for this issue can be accessed here:
- Reconstructing Response to Student Writing: A National Study from Across the Curriculum by Dan Melzer — reviewed by Issac Castillo (San Diego State University)
- Cripping Labor-Based Grading for More Equity in Literacy Courses by Asao Inoue — reviewed by Kat M. Gray (University of Arkansas)
- Educational Assessment’s special issue: “Fairness in educational assessment and the next edition of the Standards” with articles from Jennifer Randall, Randy Bennett, and Guillermo Solano-Flores — reviewed by Jen Daly (University of New Hampshire)
We are thankful for our reviewers’ hard work and appreciate their observations as they bring renewed attention to these texts about writing assessment.
As always, we are actively recruiting new reviewers for the Reading List, which you can join by filling out this form. To ensure the accuracy of our reviewer list, we have created a new form for the 25-26 academic year, so even if you have applied to be a reviewer, please update your information.
We’re also always interested in recommendations for new texts in writing assessment to review (self-promotion is welcome!); you can contact us at jwareadinglist@gmail.com.
Cheers!
Chris, Alexis, Olivia
jwareadinglist@gmail.com