{"title":"Introduction: Meeting the Challenges of Workplace English Communication in the 21st Century","authors":"M. Oliveri, David Slomp, N. Elliot, A. Rupp","doi":"10.37514/jwa-j.2021.5.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/jwa-j.2021.5.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"María Elena Oliveri, Editor, Special Issue, Buros Testing Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln David H. Slomp, Editor, Special Issue, University of Lethbridge Norbert Elliot, Editor, Special Issue, University of South Florida André A. Rupp, Editor, Special Issue, Mindful Measurement / Success Academy Charter Schools Robert J. Mislevy, Consultant, Special Issue, Educational Testing Service Meg Vezzu, Managing Editor, The Journal of Writing Analytics Alaina Tackitt, Developmental Editor, University of South Florida Jessica Nastal, Developmental Editor, Prairie State College Johanna Phelps, Book Review Editor, Washington State UniversityVancouver Matthew Osborn, Designer, The University of Pennsylvania","PeriodicalId":92857,"journal":{"name":"The journal of writing analytics","volume":"15 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83803162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Occupational Research in Complex Assessments: Aligning Educational Practices with Workplace Requirements","authors":"Kark Haigler","doi":"10.37514/jwa-j.2021.5.1.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/jwa-j.2021.5.1.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92857,"journal":{"name":"The journal of writing analytics","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89681446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Wetzel, David S. Brown, Necia Werner, S. Ishizaki, D. Kaufer
{"title":"Computer-Assisted Rhetorical Analysis: Instructional Design and Formative Assessment Using DocuScope","authors":"D. Wetzel, David S. Brown, Necia Werner, S. Ishizaki, D. Kaufer","doi":"10.37514/jwa-j.2021.5.1.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/jwa-j.2021.5.1.09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92857,"journal":{"name":"The journal of writing analytics","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88792599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Afterword: Meeting the Challenges of Workplace English Communication in the 21st Century","authors":"David Slomp, M. Oliveri, N. Elliot","doi":"10.37514/jwa-j.2021.5.1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/jwa-j.2021.5.1.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92857,"journal":{"name":"The journal of writing analytics","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74291294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Letter from the Editor-in-Chief: Special Issue on Meeting the Challenges of Workplace English Communication in the 21st Century","authors":"Susan Lang","doi":"10.37514/jwa-j.2021.5.1.00","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/jwa-j.2021.5.1.00","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92857,"journal":{"name":"The journal of writing analytics","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84539842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Diego Zapata-Rivera, Jessica Andrews-Todd, M. Oliveri
{"title":"Communicating Assessment Information in the Context of a Workplace Formative Task","authors":"Diego Zapata-Rivera, Jessica Andrews-Todd, M. Oliveri","doi":"10.37514/jwa-j.2021.5.1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/jwa-j.2021.5.1.10","url":null,"abstract":"• Background: This article describes a theoretically grounded approach to scoring and communicating assessment information to teachers and students in the context of a prototype used to assess Workplace English Communication (WEC). WEC includes skills needed to succeed in a digitally evolving workplace that increasingly requires such skills to carry out workplace-relevant activities. We elaborate on issues relevant to the design and evaluation of score reports for formative purposes, the design of the WEC prototype including the construct, tasks and scoring approaches used to produce profiles of students based on their response behavior patterns (Andrews-Todd et al., 2018), and the process of designing prospective score reports for teachers and students in the WEC context.","PeriodicalId":92857,"journal":{"name":"The journal of writing analytics","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78706258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"�Write a Greeting for Your Email Here�: Principles for Assessing Interpersonal Workplace Email Communication","authors":"Bethany Aull, Laura L. Aull","doi":"10.37514/jwa-j.2021.5.1.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/jwa-j.2021.5.1.07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92857,"journal":{"name":"The journal of writing analytics","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89071792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Validity Considerations in Complex Task Design","authors":"Richard J. Tannenbaum, Irvin R. Katz","doi":"10.37514/jwa-j.2021.5.1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/jwa-j.2021.5.1.06","url":null,"abstract":"• Background: With the growth of digital technology has come a desire to measure learning—both formatively and summatively—via complex performance tasks. Such tasks mimic the types of learning environments (whether digital or nondigital) familiar to learners, which is part of their appeal. Designed well, performance tasks present learners with similar affordances and challenges that they face in a non-assessment context, potentially allowing for greater generalizability (Conn et al., 2020). Yet complex and digital performance tasks may present some unique challenges in accumulating the necessary design-based and interpretation-based evidence of validity. In this paper, we discuss some of the measurement challenges and validity considerations associated with complex and digital performance tasks.","PeriodicalId":92857,"journal":{"name":"The journal of writing analytics","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81852244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Principled Development of Workplace English Communication Part 1: A Sociocognitive Framework","authors":"M. Oliveri, R. Mislevy, David Slomp","doi":"10.37514/jwa-j.2021.5.1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/jwa-j.2021.5.1.02","url":null,"abstract":"• Background: This study advances a sociocognitive approach to modeling complex communication tasks. Using an integrative perspective of linguistic, cultural, and substantive (LCS) patterns, we provide a framework for understanding the nature and acquisition of people’s adaptive capabilities in social/cognitive complex adaptive systems. We also illustrate the application of the framework to learning and assessment. As we will show, understanding the connection between measurement models and users’ needs is important to increase assessments’ educative usefulness.","PeriodicalId":92857,"journal":{"name":"The journal of writing analytics","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84833552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Oliveri, David Slomp, Andr� A. Rupp, R. Mislevy
{"title":"Principled Development of Workplace English Communication Part 2: Expanded Evidence-Centered Design and Theory of Action Frameworks","authors":"M. Oliveri, David Slomp, Andr� A. Rupp, R. Mislevy","doi":"10.37514/jwa-j.2021.5.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/jwa-j.2021.5.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":92857,"journal":{"name":"The journal of writing analytics","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74231504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}