Reclaiming Accountability Improving Writing Programs through Accreditation and Large-Scale Assessments / edited by Wendy Sharer, Tracy Ann Morse, Michelle F. Eble, Will Banks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Banks, Will, editor.

Eble, Michelle F., 1974- editor.

Morse, Tracy Ann, editor.

Sharer, Wendy B., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Report writing--Study and teaching.

Report writing.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Logan : Utah State University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Reclaiming Accountability brings together a series of critical case studies of writing programs that have planned, implemented, and/or assessed the impact of large-scale accreditation-supported initiatives and reimagines accreditation as a way to leverage institutional or program change and addresses assessment requirements beyond those in writing programs"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: Accreditation and Assessment as Opportunity - Wendy Sharer, Tracy Ann Morse, Michelle F. Eble, and William P. Banks; Part One: Laying the Foundations-Educating and Learning from Accrediting Bodies; 1. Assessing for Learning in an Age of Comparability: Remembering the Importance of Context - Cindy Moore, Peggy O'Neill, and Angela Crow; 2. QEP Evaluation as Opportunity: Teaching and Learning through the Accreditation Process - Susan Miller-Cochran and Rochelle Rodrigo

3. Understanding Accreditation's History and Role in Higher Education: How It Matters to College Writing Programs - Shirley K. RosePart Two: Curriculum and Program Development through Assessment and Accreditation; 4. Going All In: Creating a Community College Writing Program through the QEP and Reaccreditation Process - Jonathan Elmore and Teressa Van Sickle; 5. Moving Forward: What General Studies Assessment Taught Us about Writing, Instruction, and Student Learning - Jessica Parker and Jane Chapman Vigil

6. Making Peace with a "Regrettable Necessity": Composition Instructors Negotiate Curricular Standardization - David Weed, Tulora Roeckers, and Melanie Burdick7. A Tool for Program Building: Programmatic Assessment and the English Department at Onondaga Community College - Malkiel Choseed; 8. Centering and De-Centering Assessment: Accountability, Accreditation, and Expertise - Karen Nulton and Rebecca Ingalls

9. Using Accountability to Garner Writing Program Resources, Support Emerging Writing Researchers, and Enhance Program Visibility: Implementing the UH Writing Mentors during WASC Reaccreditation - Jim Henry10. SEUFolios: A Tool for Using ePortfolios as Both Departmental Assessment and Multimodal Pedagogy - Ryan S. Hoover and Mary Rist; Part Three : Faculty Development through Assessment and Accreditation; 11. Write to the Top: How One Regional University Made Writing Everybody's Business - Polina Chemishanova and Cynthia Miecznikowski

12. "Everybody Writes": Accreditation-Based Assessment as Professional Development at a Research Intensive University - Linda Adler-Kassner and Lorna Gonzalez13. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Assessment: Lessons from a Thresholds-Based Approach - Maggie Debelius; 14. Faculty Learning Outcomes: The Impact of QEP Workshops on Faculty Beliefs and Practices - Joyce Neff and Remica Bingham-Risher; 15. From the Outside In: Creating a Culture of Writing through a QEP - Angela Green, Iris Saltiel, and Kyle Christiansen; About the Authors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781607324355

1607324350

OCLC:

948734131