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Direct linkOdell, Lee; Katz, Susan M. – College Composition and Communication, 2009
Computer technology is expanding our profession's conception of composing, allowing visual information to play a substantial role in an increasing variety of composition assignments. This expansion, however, creates a major problem: How does one assess student work on these assignments? Current work in assessment provides only partial answers to…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing (Composition), Computer Uses in Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Peckham, Irvin – College Composition and Communication, 2009
This essay describes Louisiana State University's search for an alternative to available placement protocols. Under the leadership of Les Perelman at MIT, LSU collaborated with four universities to develop iMOAT, a program for administering online assessments of student writing. This essay focuses on LSU's On-line Challenge, which developed from…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, College Students
Danielewicz, Jane; Elbow, Peter – College Composition and Communication, 2009
Contract grading has achieved some prominence in our field as a practice associated with critical pedagogy. In this context we describe a hybrid grading contract where students earn a course grade of B based not on our evaluation of their writing quality but solely on their completion of the specified activities. The contract lists activities…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Critical Theory, Grading, Instructional Improvement
Peer reviewedArapoff-Cramer, Nancy – College Composition and Communication, 1971
Descriptors: Assignments, College Instruction, English (Second Language), Expository Writing
