Writing Program Annual Curriculum Assessment
In recent years, the Writing Program conducted an assessment of cumulative portfolios in May 2024, an assessment of WR 112 in August 2023, and an assessment of reflective writing across all levels of WR in May 2022.
Prior to 2020, the Writing Program alternated quantitative and qualitative assessments of WR 120 and WR 15x portfolios. Our assessments are meant to help us better understand our courses and teaching practices so that we can continue to improve them, as well as to help us understand our own values and perspectives more fully. Much of the value of our qualitative assessments is in the doing of them—in the rich, focused discussions among colleagues of a common body of student texts.
Archived Assessment Reports
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Qualitative Reports
AY 13/14 (discussed in Spring 2014 and Fall 2014)
- Group 1 Report (F13 WR 100)
- Group 2 Report (F13 WR 100)
- Group 3 Report (F13 WR 100)
- Group 4 Report (F13 WR 100)
- Group 5 Report (F13 WR 100 ESL)
- Group 6 Report (F13 WR 098)
- Group 2 Report (S14 WR 150)
- Group 3 Report (S14 WR 150)
- Group 4 Report (S14 WR 150)
AY 11/12 (discussed in Spring 2012 and Fall 2012)
- Group 1 Report (S12 WR 150)
- Group 2 Report (S12 WR 150)
- Group 3 Report (S12 WR 150)
- Group 4 Report (S12 WR 150)
- Group 5 Report (S12 WR 150)
- Group 1 Report (F11 WR 100)
- Group 2 Report (F11 WR 100)
- Group 3 Report (F11 WR 100)
- Group 4 Report (F11 WR 100)
- Group 5 Report (F11 WR 100)