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Reclaiming Accountability

Improving Writing Programs through Accreditation and Large-Scale Assessments

edited by Wendy Sharer, Tracy Ann Morse, Michelle F. Eble, and William P. Banks

Paperback Price $30.95
Ebook Price $24.95

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Winner of the 2018 CWPA Best Book Award


Reclaiming Accountability brings together a series of critical case studies of writing programs that have planned, implemented, and/or assessed the impact of large-scale accreditation-supported initiatives. The book reimagines accreditation as a way to leverage institutional or programmatic change.

Contributions to the volume are divided into three parts. Part 1 considers how specialists in composition and rhetoric can work most productively with accrediting bodies to design assessments and initiatives that meet requirements while also helping those agencies to better understand how writing develops and how it can most effectively be assessed. Parts 2 and 3 present case studies of how institutions have used ongoing accreditation and assessment imperatives to meet student learning needs through programmatic changes and faculty development. They provide concrete examples of productive curricular (part 2) and instructional (part 3) changes that can follow from accreditation mandates while providing guidance for navigating challenges and pitfalls that WPAs may encounter within shifting and often volatile local, regional, and national contexts.

In addition to providing examples of how others in the profession might approach such work, Reclaiming Accountability addresses assessment requirements beyond those in the writing program itself. It will be of interest to department heads, administrators, writing program directors, and those involved with writing teacher education, among others.

Contributors: Linda Adler-Kassner, William P. Banks, Remica Bingham-Risher, Melanie Burdick, Polina Chemishanova, Malkiel Choseed, Kyle Christiansen, Angela Crow, Maggie Debelius, Michelle F. Eble, Jonathan Elmore, Lorna Gonzalez, Angela Green, Jim Henry, Ryan Hoover, Rebecca Ingalls, Cynthia Miecznikowski, Susan Miller-Cochran, Cindy Moore, Tracy Ann Morse, Joyce Magnotto Neff, Karen Nulton, Peggy O’Neill, Jessica Parker, Mary Rist, Rochelle Rodrigo, Tulora Roeckers, Shirley K. Rose, Iris M. Saltiel, Wendy Sharer, Terri Van Sickle, Jane Chapman Vigil, and David M. Weed

 

Wendy Sharer is part of the writing faculty at East Carolina University. When their program faced reaccreditation in 2013, they chose to address the process as an opportunity to garner institutional support for revisions to their composition and writing across the curriculum programs.

Tracy Ann Morse is part of the writing faculty at East Carolina University. When their program faced reaccreditation in 2013, they chose to address the process as an opportunity to garner institutional support for revisions to their composition and writing across the curriculum programs.

Michelle F. Eble is part of the writing faculty at East Carolina University. When their program faced reaccreditation in 2013, they chose to address the process as an opportunity to garner institutional support for revisions to their composition and writing across the curriculum programs.

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  • Paperback Price: $30.95
  • Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60732-434-8
  • Ebook Price: $24.95
  • EISBN: 978-1-60732-435-5
  • Publication Month: April
  • Publication Year: 2016
  • Pages: 344
  • Discount Type: Short
  • Author: edited by Wendy Sharer, Tracy Ann Morse, Michelle F. Eble, and William P. Banks
  • ECommerce Code: 978-1-60732-434-8
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