How Faculty Attitudes and Expectations toward Student Nationality Affect Writing Assessment

Autor/inn/en	Lindsey, Peggy; Crusan, Deborah
Titel	How Faculty Attitudes and Expectations toward Student Nationality Affect Writing Assessment
Quelle	In: Across the Disciplines, 8 (2011) 4 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1554-8244
Schlagwörter	Native Speakers; English (Second Language); Writing (Composition); Writing Skills; College Faculty; Interviews; Foreign Students; Student Evaluation; Evaluation Methods; Teacher Attitudes; Social Attitudes; Ethnic Groups; Racial Differences; Scoring; Holistic Approach; Bias; Teacher Surveys; Essays; Focus Groups + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Muttersprachler; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Schreibübung; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Fakultät; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Lehrerverhalten; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Ethnie; Rassenunterschied; Bewertung; Holistischer Ansatz; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht
Abstract	Earlier research on assessment suggests that even when Native English Speaker (NSE) and Non-Native English Speaker (NNES) writers make similar errors, faculty tend to assess the NNES writers more harshly. Studies indicate that evaluators may be particularly severe when grading NNES writers holistically. In an effort to provide more recent data on how faculty perceive student writers based on their nationalities, researchers at two medium-sized Midwestern universities surveyed and conducted interviews with faculty to determine if such discrepancies continue to exist between assessments of international and American writers, to identify what preconceptions faculty may have regarding international writers, and to explore how these notions may affect their assessment of such writers. Results indicate that while faculty continue to rate international writers lower when scoring analytically, they consistently evaluate those same writers higher when scoring holistically. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01