Contract grading in the technical writing classroom: Blending community-based assessment and self-assessment

Litterio, Lisa M.

doi:10.1016/j.asw.2018.06.002

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“…More recently, college students under the contract earned higher grades compared to their peers in traditional grading courses (Lindemann & Harbke, 2011), reported increased involvement in the assessment process (Litterio, 2016), and perceived a stronger sense of control over their grades (Litterio, 2018). While both Lindemann and Harbke (2011) and Litterio (2018) concluded their recent work by encouraging teachers to implement contract grading to bolster academic performance and student responsibility, contract grading has remained unexamined in secondary classrooms where students face considerable threats to their well-being from achievement pressure.…”

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“…Warner observed that this nuance fostered positive affect and self-confidence. In this way, the treatment group participated in the learning and assessment process, while the teacher held the final decision over the grade, a common practice among contract grading practitioners (Danielewicz & Elbow, 2009;Potts, 2010;Litterio, 2018).…”

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“…While recent work has found increased student involvement and control (Litterio, 2016;Litterio, 2018) and increased academic performance (Potts, 2010;Lindemann & Harbke, 2011), no contemporary study has examined the impact of contract grading on adolescents. To fill this gap, this mixed-methods study included survey data and adolescents' voices to examine contract grading's impact on their perceptions of stress.…”

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2021

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2021

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“…Over the past decades, alternative approaches to assessment have been practiced by a number of scholars in different disciplines, such as utilizing assessments as a toolkit to promote student learning (Tang & Biggs 1998;Carless 2002); integrating writing assessment with Blending community (Litterio, 2018); using online assessment (Zohre, 2018);conducting electronic assessment (Upton, Ene, 2018), creating assessment in Online Writing Forums (Birch, 2016); emerging within the literature (Behizadeh and Engelhard, 2011), and using web for students assessment (Williams, 2009). This approach should be taken into consideration for lecturers to make innovatein writing assessment indifferent disciplines.…”

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Challenges In Assessing Students’ Writing For Future Instruction

Zulkifli¹,

Mukaiyar²,

Syarif³

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Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Languages and Arts (ICLA 2018)

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This study is analytical study that constitutes the information about what instruction is necessary to be designed to help bring about desired change. Instructional design is a special case of a larger process called human performance technology. The two processes are almost identical, structurally, in their overall stages of analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. Because this is a long process, therefore, this study is focused on analysis study. The purpose of this study is to find out the possibility future instruction through analyzing of lecturers' challenges in assessing students writing. Theparticipants werestudents and lectures. It was conducted at English Education Department of Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan syarifKasim Riau.This study investigated 1) general characteristic of students 2) specific entry competenciesof studentsin assessing students' writing and 3) students' need in writing assessment process.The result of this study presents the information as a guide to design a future Instruction/specific model to aid assessment process.

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“…Another major phase of classroom collaboration that I did not have the space to fully address in this chapter is the assessment of collaborative work. Scholars such as Inoue (2005Inoue ( & 2012, Litterio (2016Litterio ( & 2018, and Medina and Walker (2018) all have great work on social justice approaches to contract grading and community-based assessment. I am specifically drawn to the idea of community-based assessment practices used in combination with FDC-informed team contracts.…”

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Collaboration In The Technical Communication Classroom: Negotiating Team Contracts In A Pwi

Herman¹

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many others I cannot begin to list. I thank my significant other, my ISU family, and my biological family for their unending love and support. Most importantly, I thank the scholars and activists who have come before me, who continue to model the physical, emotional, and intellectual labor necessary to redress inequities and further the social justice turn. A. J. H. 1 CHAPTER I ENGAGING IN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACE, DISABILITY, AND GENDER: AN INTRODUCTION Ensuring that our research practices and pedagogies are inclusive has become an important and necessary task for technical and professional communication (TPC) teacher-scholars. As the TPC field is grappling with issues of systemic racism and the structural opportunities of Whiteness 1 , we are also trying to examine the ways that cultural-rhetorical research practices and pedagogies might encourage inclusivity in our research, in our classrooms, in the discipline, and in our institutions as a whole. We have reached a point where we can no longer ignore the overwhelming Whiteness of our field and institutions, and we must address the ways that institutionalized racism has silenced BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) teacher-scholars and students. The question we must ask, then, is: How can we, as TPC teacher-scholars, actively promote inclusive practices in a field and in institutions that continually (re)produce and normalize racist ideas and policies? With these specific issues in mind, this thesis examines how instructors might take up a cultural-rhetorical approach to teaching TPC and how we might negotiate team contracts 2 in a predominantly White institution (PWI). I would like to acknowledge upfront that as a graduate student, I have only taught first-year composition courses here at Illinois State University (ISU), and I have not had the 1 Throughout this thesis, I have intentionally made the decision to capitalize "White" when referring to the racial category. In my mind, to not capitalize "White" is to not recognize White as racialized, which risks reproducing Whiteness as the default. 2 Here, I am referring to team contracts in the pedagogical sense. The "team" constitutes a group of students who are about to engage in a collaborative endeavor/project, and the "contract" is a means through which the group of students may negotiate individual goals, differences in literacies and access, individual responsibilities, leadership roles, etc. I address team contracts more explicitly in chapter three.

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Contract grading in the technical writing classroom: Blending community-based assessment and self-assessment

Cited by 19 publications

References 10 publications

An integrated mixed-methods study of contract grading's impact on adolescents' perceptions of stress in high school English: a pilot study

An integrated mixed-methods study of contract grading's impact on adolescents' perceptions of stress in high school English: a pilot study

Challenges In Assessing Students’ Writing For Future Instruction

Collaboration In The Technical Communication Classroom: Negotiating Team Contracts In A Pwi

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