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Voices at the Table: Balancing the Needs and Wants of Program Stakeholders to Design a Value-Added Writing Assessment Plan
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Zawacki, Terry Myers; Reid, E. Shelley; Zhou, Ying; Baker, Sarah E. – Across the Disciplines, 2009
The WAC director, composition director, director of Institutional Assessment (OIA), and WAC/OIA liaison describe the programmatic "needs" and "wants" they balanced in the plan they collaboratively designed to respond to a state mandate for "value-added" writing assessment. To satisfy this mandate, as they explain,…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Value Added Models, Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests
Bringing Students into the Loop: A Faculty Feedback Program
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Blumner, Jacob; Fritz, Francis; Wice, Sarah – Across the Disciplines, 2007
This article describes a model for student/faculty collaboration in WAC development--students tutoring faculty on drafts of the writing assignments they have designed for their own students. While writing center scholarship is student-centered and invites student participation, Writing Across the Curriculum scholarship and implementation remains…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teacher Student Relationship, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Assignments
Why Content Literacy Is Difficult to Infuse into the Secondary School: Complexities of Curriculum, Pedagogy, and School Culture.
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O'Brien, David G.; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1995
Contends that the goals and methods of content literacy instruction (integrating content area reading and writing across the curriculum) are paradoxical. Content literacy instruction confronts deeply embedded values as a radical pedagogy, yet it represents nothing new when shaped to fit traditional curricular goals. Explores this paradox through…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Curriculum Development, Models, Program Implementation
Changes in Accounting Education Include Increased Use of Writing Tasks.
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McCleary, Bill – Composition Chronicle: Newsletter for Writing Teachers, 1997
The future of accounting education has already arrived at the Department of Accountancy at the University of Illinois-Champaign, United States' top accounting school. "Project Discovery" is a 5-year-old program that incorporates many current trends in educational innovation, such as writing across the curriculum, collaborative learning,…
Descriptors: Accounting, Active Learning, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Cooperative Learning
Speaking across the Curriculum: The Hamline Experience.
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Palmerton, Patricia R. – 1990
The Speaking across the Curriculum (SAC) program at Hamline University in Minnesota is based upon principles similar to those of many Writing across the Curriculum (WAC) programs and is complementary to the WAC program at Hamline. The SAC program requires students to take two speaking intensive courses as well as a freshman seminar in which both…
Descriptors: College Programs, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation
Writing across the Curriculum in Community Colleges. New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 73.
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Stanley, Linda C., Ed.; Ambron, Joanna, Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1991
Designed to assist program planners and administrators at community colleges in initiating a Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program or determining the future direction of one already in existence, this sourcebook provides 15 articles on various aspects of WAC theory and practice. The following articles are included: (1) "History of WAC and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Faculty Development, Interdisciplinary Approach