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Abstract

With the increasing popularity of computers in learning and instruction, it is evident that students are no longer doing much pen-and-paper writing in the classroom. Since most academic work is done on computers, handwriting any piece of academic work is tacitly becoming foreign to students. As such, their placement writing assessments, too, should be administered on computers. However, the decision to transition from the traditional blue book to computer-based writing assessment requires a careful understanding of issues that affect students and raters and that college writing programs must be quipped to manage. This article discusses such critical issues necessary for making informed transitioning and suggests ways to ensure tests administered in both modes are comparable.

5. Conclusion

Astechnology pervades most aspects of daily living, writing with computers has become the norm and isinfluencing the way we learn. It is only natural to think that the way we assess learning or learning-related abilities should reflect how such learning has evolved. There is no other time than now when computer-based assessment of writing is more desirable than handwritten assessment. With the decline of the validity of handwritten writing assessments, and in the face of a growing need to administer students’ writing placement examinations on computers, it is important for those who administer writing assessments to note that the need to transition to computer-administered writing tests far outweighs the desire to adhere to traditional practices or political whims that might have stalled this vital change all along. Given the present way learning and assessment are largely administered across the nation, paper-and-pen writing assessment seems to have lost its validity for most students, and the question we now face is not if we need to make that change or where the change is required, but what we need to know and put in place in order to ensure that computer-administered writing assessments have the same authenticity handwritten assessments used to have.