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Assessing Student Learning [Presentation With Audio], Amber R. Sellers
Assessing Student Learning [Presentation With Audio], Amber R. Sellers
Assessment & Accountability in Student Affairs & Higher Education (CNS 610)
Why? Need for assessment in higher education
How? Traditional ways of assessing within the classroom
What? Changes within traditional assessment
Huh? Translating assessment methods to student affairs
Aha! Implications for student affairs professionals
Listening For The Squeaky Wheel: Designing Distance Writing Program Assessment, Virginia M. Tucker
Listening For The Squeaky Wheel: Designing Distance Writing Program Assessment, Virginia M. Tucker
English Faculty Publications
Distance writing programs still struggle with assessment strategies that can evaluate student writing as well as their ability to communicate about that writing with peers at a distance. This article uses Kim, Smith and Maeng's 2008 distance education program assessment scheme to evaluate a single distance writing program at Old Dominion University. The program's specific assessment needs include the ability to determine how well students are developing expert insider prose and working together as a virtual community. Kim, Smith and Maeng's assessment scheme was applied to six courses within the writing program, revealing that programmatic assessment weaknesses included providing varied …