New PDF release: Very Like a Whale: The Assessment of Writing Programs

By Edward M. White,Norbert Elliot,Irvin Peckham

ISBN-10: 087421985X

ISBN-13: 9780874219852

Winner of the 2015 CPTSC Award for Excellence in software Assessment

Written in case you layout, redecorate, and examine writing courses, Very Like a Whale is a radical dialogue of writing software review matters. Taking its identify from Hamlet, the e-book explores the multifaceted forces that form writing courses and the valuable function those courses can and may play in defining collage education.

Given the hot period of review in better schooling, writing courses needs to offer legitimate proof that they're serving scholars, teachers, directors, alumni, accreditors, and policymakers. This publication introduces new conceptualizations linked to review, making them transparent and on hand to these within the occupation of rhetoric and composition/writing stories. It additionally deals recommendations that reduction in accumulating information regarding the relative good fortune of a writing software achieve its pointed out goals.

Philosophically and traditionally aligned with quantitative methods, White, Elliot, and Peckham use case research and best-practice scholarship to illustrate the applicability in their leading edge technique, termed layout for evaluate (DFA). good grounded in evaluate conception, Very Like a Whale may be of functional use to new and pro writing application directors alike, in addition to to any educator concerned with the accreditation process.

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