She has held visiting faculty appointments in composition at Drake University and Ohio State University, and has directed the English education program at Elizabethtown College. In addition to coediting Assessing Portfolios (NCTE) with Bonnie Sunstein, Cheville has contributed chapters to Multiple Literacies for the Twenty-First Century (Hampton Press), Research Review for School Leaders (Lawrence-Erlbaum Associates), and The Portfolio Standard (Heinemann).