Using the Outcomes Statement for Technical Communication

Maid, Barry M.

doi:10.2307/j.ctt46nwgv.19

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“…Even though these studies on SLOs as part of assessment provide TPC PAs important examples, they do not address using SLOs, writing SLOs, or using them to build student centered courses. Borrowing on the voluminous work on course outcomes from composition studies (see e.g., Behm et al, 2012; Gallagher, 2019; Harrington et al, 2005), Maid (2005) used the Council of Writing Program Administration's (WPA) Outcomes Statement for first-year writing to guide the creation of outcomes and an assessment plan for a TPC degree program. Maid (2005) suggested that with minor changes, these “all encompassing” (p.140) outcomes fit the needs of the program.…”

Section: What Tpc Knows About Student Learning Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Borrowing on the voluminous work on course outcomes from composition studies (see e.g., Behm et al, 2012; Gallagher, 2019; Harrington et al, 2005), Maid (2005) used the Council of Writing Program Administration's (WPA) Outcomes Statement for first-year writing to guide the creation of outcomes and an assessment plan for a TPC degree program. Maid (2005) suggested that with minor changes, these “all encompassing” (p.140) outcomes fit the needs of the program. Later, though, Maid and D’Angelo (2012) reconsidered Maid's previous view on the use of WPA outcomes statement and concluded that the outcomes from the WPA Outcomes Statement did not speak to what TPC needed as a whole.…”

Section: What Tpc Knows About Student Learning Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Field Wide Snapshot of Student Learning Outcomes in the Technical and Professional Communication Service Course

Griffith

Zarlengo

Melonçon

2022

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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Using the technical and professional communication service course as the site for research, and student learning outcomes (SLOs) as the specific focus, we gathered, coded, and analyzed 503 SLOs from 93 institutions. Our results show the top outcomes are rhetoric, genre, writing, design, and collaboration. We discuss these outcomes and then we offer programmatic implications drawn from the data that encourage technical and professional communication program administrators and faculty to use common SLOs, to improve outcome development, and to reconsider the purpose of the service course for students.

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Section: What Tpc Knows About Student Learning Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: What Tpc Knows About Student Learning Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Field Wide Snapshot of Student Learning Outcomes in the Technical and Professional Communication Service Course

Griffith

Zarlengo

Melonçon

2022

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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“…The scholarship of outcomes statements that derive from the Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) includes robust discussion within the FYC community for which it was designed and has been extended into TPC curricular design. Barry M. Maid (2004) takes care to adapt the CWPA outcomes into his technical communication course, taking advantage of the invitation of the Outcomes to adapt and adjust the document to meet new disciplinary needs. Maid remarks that he was surprised by how little he had to adjust the outcomes to address his own context.…”

Section: Conclusion: Pedagogical Challenges Of and Justifications For Incorporating Industry Standards Into Curriculum Designmentioning

confidence: 99%