Article by Month

December 2025

Editor’s Introduction | Fall 2025

Review of Dan Melzer's Reconstructing Response to Student Writing: A National Study from Across the Curriculum

Review of Asao B. Inoue’s Cripping Labor-Based Grading for More Equity in Literacy Courses

Review of Educational Assessment’s Special Issue: Fairness in Educational Assessment and the Next Edition of the Standards

June 2024

Editor’s Introduction | Summer 2024

Review of Stephanie West-Puckett, Nicole I. Caswell, and William P. Banks’ Failing Sideways: Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment

Review of Shane A. Wood’s Teachers Talking Writing: Perspectives on Places, Pedagogies, and Programs

September 2023

Editor’s Introduction | Summer 2023

Review of Diane Kelly-Riley and Norbert Elliot’s Improving Outcomes: Disciplinary Writing, Local Assessment, and the Aim of Fairness

Review of Sandra Murphy and Peggy O’Neill’s Assessing Writing to Support Learning: Turning Accountability Inside Out

Review of Henning et al.’s Reframing Assessment to Center Equity: Theories, Models, and Practices

Review of Jessica Nastal, Mya Poe, and Christie Toth’s Writing Placement in Two-Year Colleges: The Pursuit of Equity in Postsecondary Education

December 2022

Editor’s Introduction | Winter 2022

Special Introduction | Winter 2022

Review of Ellen C. Carillo’s The Hidden Inequities in Labor-Based Contract Grading

Review of Communal Justicing: Writing Assessment, Disciplinary Infrastructure, and the Case for Critical Language Awareness

Review of Deborah Cursan’s “Writing Assessment Literacy”

Review of Susan D. Blum’s Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead)

May 2019

Review of Robert L. Hampel’s Fast and Curious: A History of Shortcuts in American Education

Review of Zachary Stein’s Social Justice and Educational Measurement: John Rawls, the History of Testing, and the Future of Education

March 2019

Review of Assessment, Equity, and Opportunity to Learn

December 2018

Review of Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs

October 2018

Review of Writing Assessment, Social Justice, and the Advancement of Opportunity

September 2018

A Review of Emily J. Isaacs’ Writing at the State U: Instruction and Administration at 106 Comprehensive Universities, Part 1

A Review of Emily J. Isaacs’ Writing at the State U: Instruction and Administration at 106 Comprehensive Universities, Part 2

June 2018

Review of Reclaiming Accountability: Improving Writing Programs through Large-Scale Assessments

January 2018

Looking ahead in 2018

December 2017

A Review of Barbara E. Walvoord’s Assessing and Improving Student Writing in College

May 2017

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Part III: A Review of Kathleen Blake Yancey’s A Rhetoric of Reflection