September 2007
Theme: SPOTLIGHT ON ASSESSMENT
Artist of this issue: Jeff Key

Contents
Audience-Specific Writing Assessment
– Leif Fearn and Nancy Farnan
Assess Understanding and Use Results to Improve Instruction
– Jim Burke
“New” Assessment Hits the Great White North
– Pamela Lockman
Preparing Students for the International Baccalaureate
Commentary Assessment
– Deborah Wilchek
Student Roles in Common Formative Assessments
– Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher and Christine Johnson
Off the Grid: The Debate Over Rubrics—and What It’s Missing
– Barry Gilmore
Reaping the Rewards: Two Views of the Early Assessment
Program
– Marcy E. Merrill and Jennifer Fletcher
Teaching, Testing Relationships: The True Story.
– Jane Hancock
Assessment in English: Toward Coherence
– Mike Schmoker
Features and Columns
President’s Perspective
Editor’s Column
Call for Manuscripts
CATE 2008
CATE: 2008 Creative Writing Contest
At the District Essay Scoring, a poem by Cecil Morris
Research Update by Barbara Bartholomew
Rube Brick, a poem by Ernie Karsten
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