Meaningful assessment for improving writing center consultations
- WCU Author/Contributor (non-WCU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Joy Neaves (Creator)
- Institution
- Western Carolina University (WCU )
- Web Site: http://library.wcu.edu/
- Advisor
- Marsha Baker
Abstract: This thesis presents the spring 2011 assessment for the University Writing Center at UNC
Asheville, a small liberal arts college in Western North Carolina. It includes the results of
a study that seeks to shift the focus of assessment in the University Writing Center from
operational goals to learning goals; it interprets data related to student writers’ and
undergraduate consultants’ perceptions of observable cognitive development activities
during typical writing center sessions. The study grew from the University Writing
Center’s response to newly developed University Student Learning outcomes (USLOs)
and the University Mission Statement.
Meaningful assessment for improving writing center consultations
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Thesis
- Language: English
- Date: 2011
- Keywords
- Assessment, Cognitive Development Activities, Critical Thinking, Student writers, Writing Centers, Writing consultants
- Subjects
- Writing centers -- Evaluation