Assessment

=Assessment= ENC1101 and ENC1102 Program Assessment is being done for program review. It will not be used to individually assess students as an exit requirement or be used to judge instructor performance. All instructors for ENC1101 and ENC1102:

Please read the following carefully and make plans appropriately within your planning and your syllabus. This applies only to ENC1101 and ENC1102.

The assessment this year will be an examination rather than a writing sample. The examination will test your students’ knowledge and understanding of proper ways to use source materials, integrating paraphrases and quotes within texts, citation and documentation. It will be a closed book test, so it will not test the minutia of MLA Style but will test general understanding of the proper formats according to MLA Style.


 * Plan one class period (of up to 80 minutes) for administration of the exam . This should be during the last two weeks of your term.
 * A Term Classes will __not__ do the assessment . We’re still preparing the instrument and it will not be ready for A –Term classes.
 * All B-Term and Full Term classes __must__ administer the assessment .

DO NOT present this as “the department assessment,” to your students It should be presented as a regular part of your course, just as if it were one of your own tests. Students should not see this as something extra, done for some other purpose than to test their knowledge of the material.

DO include this test as part of your grade calculation Make it worth at least 5% of their grade, but you may count it more than that if you wish. Students must be motivated to do their best on the exam. They will do their best and we will get better, more valid and reliable results, if they see this as another grade which is a regular part of their coursework.