Notes Toward the Role of Materiality in Composing, Reviewing, and Assessing Multimodal Texts

Validity in writing assessment calls for ethical "IDAs": interpretations, decisions, and actions. acents Scrapbooks and student ePortfolios focus attention on materiality and multimodality. Such attention influences how scholars and teachers encounter these genres. acents Careful consideration of these encounters points to an ethical and informed assessment practice. This approach is useful for teachers and scholars designing a language and an assessment process for multimodal texts.