Book Review Submissions

Book reviews are significant scholarly contributions to the education literature that evaluate publications in the field. Persons submitting reviews have the responsibility to summarize authors’ works in a just and accurate manner. A quality review includes both description and analysis. The description should include a summary of the main argument or purpose and overview of its content, methodology, and theoretical perspective. The analysis of the book should consider how it contrasts to other works in the field and include a discussion of its strengths, weaknesses and implications. Judgments of the work are permitted, but personal attacks or distortions are not acceptable as the purpose of the review is to foster scholarly dialogue amongst members of the assessment community.

• Style: Submissions should be formatted in the 6th edition of APA.
• Format: Manuscripts should be submitted electronically. The standard manuscript form has 1 inch margins on all sides located in 12 point New Times Roman font.
• Length: reviews should be 5-8 typed, double spaced pages (1,250 - 2,000 words).
• Copyright: Reviews shall not have been registered for copyright or published elsewhere prior to publication in Research & Practice in Assessment.
• Deadlines: Submission deadlines for the summer and winter issues are April 1 and September 1, respectively. The summer is published in July and the winter in December. Articles may be sent to rpaeditor@virginiaassessment.org and must be a Microsoft Word attachment.