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English Assessment Program

The English Department at Glendale Community College offers an Assessment Program to improve student writing and writing instruction. The program aims to identify persistent problems, establish shared standards, and improve success in other courses. Relevant activities include scoring student essays, providing model essays, and defining "good writing" through clear assignments and rubrics. The program benefits both faculty and students by offering uniform writing challenges, consistent instruction and evaluation, and confidence in subsequent courses.

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English Assessment Program

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  1. English Assessment Program Documents are available online on the Assessment Program web English Department Glendale Community College

  2. Goals • To improve student writing • To improve writing instruction • To identify persistent problems • To establish shared standards • To improve success in other courses • To build a coherent program English Department Glendale Community College

  3. Purpose • To define “good writing” • By writing clear assignments • By constructing clear rubrics • By scoring student essays • To explain “good writing” to students • By making standards explicit • By scoring according to rubrics • By providing model essays English Department Glendale Community College

  4. ENG101 (107) is our core course • Other courses prepare for it • Other courses follow from it • Other departments depend upon it English Department Glendale Community College

  5. Assessment benefits for faculty • Uniform writing challenges • Common assignments • Uniform achievement expectations • Common rubrics • Uniform writing assessment • Consistent grading English Department Glendale Community College

  6. Assessment benefits for students • Consistent instruction • Consistent evaluation • Confidence in subsequent courses • Confidence in other classes English Department Glendale Community College

  7. Assessment Notebook • A record of our work • A repository of our findings • A resource for colleagues English Department Glendale Community College

  8. The process • Common assessment activities • ENG 101 Common Final • ENG 102 Common Assignment • Common assignments in other courses (Spring 2008) • Individual assessment activities • Faculty reports English Department Glendale Community College

  9. General affective outcomes • More confident faculty • Increased collegiality • Instructional curiosity • Voluntary standardization • Improved assignments • Respect for difference English Department Glendale Community College

  10. Challenges • Thoughtful design • Good assignments • Common evaluation • Timely participation English Department Glendale Community College

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