This book won the 2014 CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication) Outstanding
Book Award - Edited Collection Race and Writing Assessment brings together established and
up-and-coming scholars in composition studies to explore how writing assessments needs to
change in order to account for the increasing diversity of students in college classrooms
today. Contributors identify where we have ignored race in our writing assessment approaches
and explore issues related to assessment technologies faculty and student responses to
assessment institutional responses to writing assessment and context for assessing writing
beyond composition programs. Balancing practical advice and theoretical discussions Race and
Writing Assessment provides a variety of models frameworks and research methods to consider
writing assessment approaches that are sensitive to the linguistic and cultural identities that
diverse students bring to writing classrooms. This book illustrates that this is no
one-size-fits-all model for addressing diversity in assessment practice but that assessment
practices attuned to racial diversity must be rooted in the contexts in which they are found.
In doing so Race and Writing Assessment enriches contemporary research on contextualized
approaches to writing assessment.
