English
ENGL 7360: JusticeOrientedWritAssessment
Seminar - 4 credits
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- Justice-Oriented Writing Assessment: Antiracist, Decolonial, and Anti-Ableist Approaches to Evaluating Writing: In the U.
- S., writing assessment is woven through our lives.
- In pre-schools, children’s’ development is, in part, traced through their recognition of letters and their pre-literacy abilities.
- In the K-12 educational system, high-stakes writing assessments are mandated by federal and state governments and are one metric to track school if schools are meeting grade-level learning standards.
- In colleges, writing assessment is used to track students and measure the “effectiveness” of programs.
- Teachers and writing center tutors also use writing assessment methods, such as response and self-assessment, to help writers meet their goals.
- Within workplaces and professional programs, writing assessment is a means to determine qualifications of candidates and determine licensure.
- Finally, writing assessment has played a role in U.
- S. immigration policies and colonialism.
- In short, the assessment of writing is ubiquitous in U.
- S. culture.
- While there has long been attention to the injustices of testing, today there is a renewed urgency to challenging and changing unjust writing assessment practices.
- In this course, we will learn key theoretical ideas about evaluation and learning, explore the histories of use and misuse of writing testing in the U.
- S., and wrestle with emerging antiracist, decolonial, and anti-ableist approaches to writing assessment.
- Such justice-oriented frameworks and methods can be applied to the teaching and assessment of writing in any context.
- Students will be given options for different kinds of projects to fulfill the course requirements.
- All evaluation in this course will be shared evaluation methods.
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