Dr. Heidi Estrem came to Boise State University in 2006. She has a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of Nevada, Reno. Her dissertation was “A Study of Two Cultures and the Travelers Who Must Negotiate Them: High School Senior English and College First-Year English Classes”, and her research interests continue to include the study of writers in transition. She is also interested in TA education and mentoring, composition pedagogy, instructors' pedagogical development, and other aspects of writing program administration. She has published (collaboratively and singly) in WPA, Rhetoric Review, English Journal, and in edited collections. Dr. Estrem is also the Director of the First-Year Writing Program at Boise State. She leads faculty development workshops, develops curriculum for the first-year writing program, teaches first-year writing classes and the graduate seminar for new teaching assistants, and coordinates the assessment of the first-year writing program.
Articles
What New Writing Teachers Talk About When They Talk About Teaching (with E. Shelley Reid), Pedagogy (2012)
As a discipline with academic roots in pedagogy (Harris 1996), composition studies has fostered increasingly...
Reading Practices in the Writing Classroom (with Linda Adler-Kassner), WPA: Writing Program Administration (2007)
As WPAs, we’ve seen the pedagogical tensions that often result when first-year students’ and writing...
Growing Pains: The Writing Major in Composition and Rhetoric, Composition Studies (2007)
In the fall of 2005, as the result of various local factors, we called ourselves...
The Portfolio's Shifting Self: Possibilities for Assessing Student Learning, Pedagogy (2004)
By now, portfolios are well established as tools for both learning and assessment in many...
Books
Organic Writing Assessment: Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action (with Bob Broad, Linda Adler-Kassner, Barry Alford, Jane Detweiler, Susanmarie Harrington, Maureen McBride, Eric Stalions, and Scott Weeden), Faculty Authored Books (2009)
Organic Writing Assessment represents an important step in the evolution of writing assessment in higher...
Contributions to Books
Students' Texts Beyond the Classroom: Young Scholars in Writing's Challenges to College Writing Instruction (with Doug Downs and Susan Thomas), Teaching with Student Texts: Essays Toward an Informed Practice (2010)
The student texts that center a writing course should include not only those written by...
The Journey is the Destination: The Place of Assessment in an Activist Writing Program (with Linda Adler-Kassner), Organic Writing Assessment: Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action (2009)
LOCAL CONTEXT Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive university of about 24,000 (about 22,000 of...
Making Pedagogy Our Business: Strengthening the Ties Between English Education and Composition-Rhetoric, Academic Cultures: Professional Preparation and the Teaching Life (2008)
Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A View from the Field (with Linda Adler-Kassner), The Outcomes Book: Debate and Consensus After the WPA Outcomes Statement (2005)
"For departments, programs, and individuals, this collection levers the Outcomes Statement in all its simplicity...
Presentations
Noticing Trends: Data Discussions in First-Year Writing, High Mountain Affiliate of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, Conference on Languages and Literacies (2011)