Institutional Assessment and the Intellectual Work of Teaching and Learning in First-Year Composition
Institutional assessment initiatives can provide opportunities to make the intellectual work of teaching and learning in composition studies more visible. Reciprocally, the scholarship of teaching and learning’s situatedness within disciplinary norms and values can enhance institutional assessments,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Park University
2013-08-01
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| Series: | InSight |
| Online Access: | http://insightjournal.park.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Ch.-4-Faculty-Article-Institutional-Assessment-and-the-Intellectual-Work-of-Teaching-and-Learning-in-First-Year-Composition.pdf |
| Summary: | Institutional assessment initiatives can provide opportunities to make the intellectual work of teaching and learning in composition studies more visible. Reciprocally, the scholarship of teaching and learning’s situatedness within disciplinary norms and values can enhance institutional assessments, providing a check on the tendency to rely on singular, overly generalized mechanisms for
capturing course- or program-level data. This article shares one example of the reciprocal relationship that can occur between disciplinary and institutional assessment initiatives. |
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| ISSN: | 1933-4850 1933-4869 |