English Journal, Vol. 67, No. 7, October 1978

Table of Contents

• Editor's Page: Standardized Tests and Their Alternatives

• Viewpoint: Caught in the Lie

  P. B. Janeczko

• The Profession in Perspective: Instrumental English

  Mark A. Neville

• Letters

• NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing: Guidelines for 1978-1979

• Evaluation Procedures: False and True

  Joan Estes Barickman

• Checking the Accuracy of Pupil Scores in Standardized Tests

  John J. Hassett

• Criterion Referenced Evaluation as an Alternative

  Marna Broekhoff

• Developing Non-Essay Tests to Measure Affective Response to Poetry

  Sarah J. Snider

• Role-Taking: A Measure of Communication Development

  Joseph L. McCaleb and Donna L. Korman

• Bridging the Gap: Two Alternatives to Standardized Testing

  Thomas A. Rakes and Lana McWilliams

• Standardized Tests: Multiple Choices of the Wrong Kind

  John S. Dinan

• Teach the Motivating Force of Revision

  Donald W. Murray

• How Do We Know How Well Kids Write?

  Judith Horner

• Peer Evaluation

  Irvin Peckham

• Grades Don't Have to Hurt

  Charles W. Lewis, Jr.

• Once Over

• Professional Publications

  Dan Kirby

• Practice to Theory

  Anne R. Gere and Sandra Clark

• ERIC/ RCS Report: A Multiple Choice Answer to the Standardized Testing Issue

  Bob Lange

• Research Roundup: Evaluating the Results of Classroom Literary Study

  Anthony Petrosky and Charles Cooper

• NCTE to You

• EJ Workshop

• JH/MS Idea Factory

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