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Examples of Assessment by Institution |
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Moravian College: Writing-across-the-Curriculum (WAC) is a curricular initiative that is embodied primarily in two required courses: a first year, cross-disciplinary writing course (Writing 100) and a writing-intensive (WI) course in each student's major. A study was designed to examine one learning outcome for Writing 100 courses and one learning outcome for all writing-intensive courses in the humanities division. Data were analyzed and the findings were disseminated. Although the sample size of Writing 100 was small, the assessment showed that students in Writing 100 tended to write solely for the teacher as evaluator, rather than writing for varying genres and audiences, which is an expected outcome of all Writing 100 courses. The director of WAC addressed this concern in annual faculty workshops for Writing 100.
The students in the WI courses were more successful in their ability to "analyze the needs and expectations of an audience for the writing in common to the discipline and effectively address them in the student's own writing." The WAC director discussed these findings and focused on related pedagogical strategies in the faculty development workshop. |
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