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    "title": "Exploring Fairness and Seeking Social Justice for Writing Assessment: ePortfolios, Language Difference, and Metacognition",
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    "abstract": "<p>This quantitative validation analysis applies antiracist methods to longitudinal ePortfolio assessment data to study language difference through the lens of a metacognitive literacy construct. With interdisciplinary research reshaping the field of writing assessment using quantitative and intersectional demographic approaches, this essay advances language as a meaningful register of validity evidence and an indicator of fairness across linguistically and racially heterogeneous students sorted into three cohorts that establish comparisons of ePortfolio assessment scores from samples tracking from 2016–2020. To contribute to the critical study of social justice in writing assessment, this exploratory analysis offers nuanced responses to its guiding heuristic question: Can ePortfolios be instruments of fairness in a local assessment ecology? For this formative curricular assessment, rigorous statistical methods complicate claims derived from the ePortfolio assessment results, with post-hoc power calculations and disparate impact analysis used to search for differences between language cohorts and intersectional demographics defined by race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and first generation. These quantitative methods further inferences about the ePortfolio instrument’s fairness by problematizing the use of singular demographic aggregations for underrepresented students when attempting to validate assessment constructs and engage in the ongoing study of fairness and social justice in a local writing assessment ecology.</p>",
    "language": "eng",
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        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs  4.0",
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        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Writing Assessment"
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            "word": "anti-racist writing assessment"
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            "word": "ePortfolios"
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            "word": "fairness"
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            "word": "antiracist writing assessment"
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            "word": "validity"
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            "word": "reliability"
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            "word": "power analysis"
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            "word": "disparate impact"
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            "word": "intersectionality"
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            "first_name": "Brad",
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            "last_name": "Queen",
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            "institution": "U.C. Irvine",
            "department": "English, Composition Program"
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            "first_name": "Kate",
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            "last_name": "Kirby",
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            "institution": "U.C. Irvine",
            "department": "Center for Statistical Consulting"
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            "last_name": "Eslami",
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            "institution": "U.C. Irvine",
            "department": "School of Education"
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    "date_submitted": "2023-08-08T16:13:23.394000-04:00",
    "date_accepted": "2025-06-17T17:40:07.374000-04:00",
    "date_published": "2025-12-08T09:05:37.342000-05:00",
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