Pairing WAC and Quantitative Reasoning through Portfolio Assessment and Faculty Development

Autor/inn/en	Rutz, Carol; Grawe, Nathan D.
Titel	Pairing WAC and Quantitative Reasoning through Portfolio Assessment and Faculty Development
Quelle	In: Across the Disciplines, 6 (2009) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1554-8244
Schlagwörter	Writing Across the Curriculum; Writing Instruction; Writing Evaluation; College Faculty; Faculty Development; Educational History; Thinking Skills; Educational Objectives; Ethics; Persuasive Discourse; Graduation Requirements; Undergraduate Students; Evaluation Methods; Statistical Analysis; Portfolio Assessment; Student Evaluation; Interdisciplinary Approach; Teacher Attitudes; Minnesota + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schreibunterricht; Fakultät; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Denkfähigkeit; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Ethik; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Abschlussordnung; Statistische Analyse; Portfoliobeurteilung; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Lehrerverhalten
Abstract	Writing across the curriculum has been a pedagogy associated with faculty development since the earliest days of the movement. Carleton College, an early adopter of WAC pedagogy and faculty development, has, in the last decade, added portfolio assessment to the combination with positive results. Among the unexpected consequences has been a partnership with a curricular initiative in quantitative reasoning (QR), which has taken advantage of portfolio assessment as well as joint faculty development opportunities to successfully argue for the rhetorical power of numbers in teaching argumentation. We trace the history of WAC and QR at Carleton, describe the faculty development and assessment features, and argue that the combination of WAC and QR serves goals of liberal education: precision in language and ethical argumentation. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	WAC Clearinghouse. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523. Tel: 970-491-3132; Web site: http://wac.colostate.edu
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01