Improving Outcomes: Disciplinary Writing, Local Assessment, and the Aim of Fairness - Softcover

Diane Kelly-Riley (editor) & Norbert Elliot (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603295135 ISBN 13: 9781603295130

Publisher: Modern Language Association, 2020

Synopsis

Students thrive when they are exposed to a variety of disciplinary genres, and their lives-and our institutions-are enriched by improving their writing outcomes. Taking account of evolving research, writing in the disciplines, and demographic and institutional shifts in higher education, this volume imagines new ways to improve writing outcomes by broadening the focus of assessment to wider issues of humanity and society.

The essays-by contributors from diverse fields, from writing studies to nursing, engineering, and architecture-demonstrate innovative classroom practices and curricular design that place fairness and the situatedness of language at the center of writing instruction. Contributors reflect on a wide range of examples, from a disability-as-insight model to reckoning with postcolonial legacies, and the essays consider a variety of institutions, classrooms, and types of assessment, including culturally responsive assessment and peer feedback in digital environments.

About this title

About the Author

Founded in 1883, the Modern Language Association of America provides opportunities for its members to share their scholarly findings and teaching experiences with colleagues and to discuss trends in the academy. MLA members host an annual convention and other meetings, work with related organizations, and sustain one of the finest publishing programs in the humanities. For more than a century, members have worked to strengthen the study and teaching of language and literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Modern Language Association
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1603295135
• ISBN 13: 9781603295130
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277