Wei Zhang, PhD (Columbia University), is Professor of English in the English Department at Peking University, China. She has published internationally on topics including Chinese English, language and gender, and multilingual and digital literacy in journals such as Discourse & Society, Journal of Pragmatics, and World Englishes. She was a visiting professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2016). She currently serves on the editorial boards of Computers & Composition, Linguistic Research, and World Englishes. 

Chapter 1. Assessing English literacy in a digital age

1.1 New goals for College English education in a digital age

1.2 Paradigm shift in assessment

1.2.1 Large-scale standardized English testing

1.2.2 Towards educative assessment

1.2.3 Emergent research on digital literacy assessment

1.3 Purpose of the study

Chapter 2. Designing Doing English Digital

2.1 Achievement targets

2.2 Digital research project

2.2.1 Project description

2.2.2 Design principles

2.3 Constructivist online learning environment

2.3.1 Online modules

2.3.2 Online learning community

2.4 Evaluation tools

2.4.1 Checklists

2.4.2 Evaluation rubrics

2.5 Summary for Chapter 2

Chapter 3. Developing evaluation rubrics

3.1 Phase I

3.1.1 Designing evaluation rubrics

3.1.2 Evaluating student presentations

3.1.3 Analyzing evaluation results

3.2 Phase II

3.2.1 Revising evaluation rubrics

3.2.2 Evaluating student presentations

3.2.3 Analyzing evaluation results

3.3 Phase III

3.3.1 Refining evaluation rubrics

3.3.2 Applying refined rubrics

3.4 Summary for Chapter 3

Chapter 4. Evaluating the stability of rubrics

4.1 Overall evaluation results

4.2 Stability of rubrics

4.2.1 Correlation tests

4.2.2 Percentage agreement test

4.2.3 Kappa test

4.3 Summary for Chapter 4

Chapter 5. Evaluating the effectiveness of rubrics

5.1 Accomplished exemplars

5.1.1 Yue Yu's project presentations

5.1.2 Siqi Yu's project presentations

5.2 Promising exemplars

5.2.1 Yangyang Xu's project presentations

5.3 Developing exemplars

5.3.1 Hao Wu's project presentations

5.3.2 Qin Liu's project presentations

5.4 Summary for Chapter 5

Chapter 6. Discussion

6.1 Summary of major findings

6.2 Researcher reflections

6.3 Future applications

References

Appendix A Yue Yu's written presentation

Appendix B Yue Yu's PowerPoint slides