Robert L. Johnson, James A. Penney,andBelita Gordonhave been involved in assessment in writing, the visual and performing arts, and licensure and certification. Their research focuses on the scoring of performance assessments and methods to improve the quality of scores associated with those assessments. Their work has been published in such journals as theAmerican Journal of Evaluation,Applied Measurement in Education,Assessing Writing,Language Assessment Quarterly: An International Journal,Evaluation and Program Planning, theJournal of Experimental Education, theJournal of Personnel Evaluation in Education, theInternational Journal of Engineering Education, andWritten Communication.nbsp;