Journal article
Measuring Quality, Evaluating Curricular Change: A 7-Year Assessment of Undergraduate Business Student Writing
Journal of business and technical communication, v 31(2), pp 135-167
01 Apr 2017
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Abstract
This article reports the background, methods, and results of a 7-year project (2007-2013) that assessed the writing of undergraduate business majors at a business college. It describes specific issues with writing assessment and how this study attempted to overcome them, largely through a situated assessment approach. The authors provide the results of more than 3,700 assessments of nearly 2,000 documents during the course of the study, reporting on scores overall and for each rubric criterion and comparing the scores of English and business assessors. They also investigate how two curricular interventions were evaluated through this assessment project. Although overall, the writing of these business majors was assessed as good, results showed noteworthy differences between the scores of English and business assessors and a noteworthy impact for one of the curricular interventions, an effort to improve the material conditions of writing instruction. The authors conclude by discussing some next steps and implications of this project.
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- Title
- Measuring Quality, Evaluating Curricular Change: A 7-Year Assessment of Undergraduate Business Student Writing
- Creators
- Scott Warnock - Drexel UniversityNicholas Rouse - Drexel UniversityChristopher Finnin - Drexel UniversityFrank Linnehan - Drexel UniversityDylan Dryer - University of Maine
- Publication Details
- Journal of business and technical communication, v 31(2), pp 135-167
- Publisher
- Sage
- Number of pages
- 33
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- English and Philosophy; [Retired Faculty]; General Business
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000395352200001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85014677044
- Other Identifier
- 991019167735904721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Business
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