A history of New York state literacy test assessment: Historicizing calls to localism in writing assessment |
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| Authors: | Tricia Serviss |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Language Testing Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Victoria, Australia;2. Department of Medical Education, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Victoria, Australia;3. School of Nursing and Midwifery, Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood 3125, Victoria, Australia;4. Melbourne School of Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Victoria, Australia;5. School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Victoria, Australia;6. Occupational English Test, Cambridge Boxhill Language Assessment, PO Box 16136, Collins St West, Melbourne, VIC, 8007, Australia;1. New York University, Department of Teaching and Learning, 239 Greene Street #514, New York, NY 10003, United States;2. Georgetown University, Linguistics Department, 1421 37th Street NW, Poulton Hall 227, Washington DC 20057, United States |
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| Abstract: | Drawing upon archival materials, I describe the history, design, and assessment of literacy tests from early 20th century New York state. Practitioners working with these early standardized writing tests grappled with tensions created by public Nativist sentiment, the legislation of “literacy,” and calls to score the tests in standardized yet locally appropriate ways. These practitioners developed their own constructs for “reading,” “writing,” and “literacy” as they administered and scored the tests. These practitioners were enacting writing assessment theories and methods that are currently valorized in calls to local writing assessment, disrupting some assumptions about writing assessment history as a move from strict standardization to more contextualized, local approaches. Practitioner efforts also provide a way forward as we continue to negotiate between calls to localism and standardization. |
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