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| WPA: Writing Program… | 3 |
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| Reports - Evaluative | 3 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
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Peer reviewedCoulter, Lauren Sewell – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 2000
Presents research that demonstrates how local institutional practices can preclude benefits of portfolio evaluation. Finds that communal portfolio assessment shifts the primary site of authority negotiation for new composition teachers (teaching assistants) from their relationships with students to their relationships with their more experienced…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement, Portfolio Assessment
Peer reviewedGraham, Margaret Baker; Birmingham, Elizabeth; Zachry, Mark – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1997
Examines the restructuring of first-year composition at Iowa State University. Discusses the exodus of tenure-track faculty from first-year composition in the late 1970's and early 1980's; why upper administration is now mandating tenure-track faculty's return; why the department of English is cooperating; and potential risks in cooperating or not…
Descriptors: English Departments, Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Politics of Education
Peer reviewedCogie, Jane – WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1997
Finds that 10 students with experience tutoring at the Writing Center felt that this experience improved their classroom teaching, helping them understand the practical implications of student-centered theory and making them more committed to practicing it in the classroom. Offers two case studies showing how one-to-one teaching in the Writing…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Improvement
