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2004 · San Antonio

Challenges in Scoring High-Stakes Writing Assessments: Coping with Contrasting Response Modes, Score Drift, and Test Prep

Session J.30

Area: Institutional and Professional · family: Institutions, labor and the profession

RoleName as printedAffiliation as printedPaper
Chair Doug Baldwin ETS, Princeton, NJ → Educational Testing Service
Presenters Doug Baldwin ETS, Princeton, NJ → Educational Testing Service ‘They Won’t Let Me Word Process!’ ‘But I Can’t Read Their Handwriting!’: Effects of Modes of Composition on Both Examinees and Scorers in High-Stakes Writing Assessments
Presenters Jean Williams ETS, Princeton, NJ → Educational Testing Service ‘Real’ Writing Under Standardized Test Constraints: Implementing and Scoring Graduate Admissions Writing Assessments
Presenters Jennifer Bivens-Tatum ETS, Princeton, NJ → Educational Testing Service Preparing for Mediocrity: Test Preparation and the Validity of High-Stakes Standardized Writing Assessments

Source

NCTE's program, near page 214 of the file. Names link to a person page only for people listed at two or more conventions.

Cite as: Conference on College Composition and Communication. “Challenges in Scoring High-Stakes Writing Assessments: Coping with Contrasting Response Modes, Score Drift, and Test Prep.” 2004 Convention Program, San Antonio, session J.30. Via CCCC Program Reader, November 2, 2026.