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What is Directed Self Placement

Chapter 19
Handbook of Research on Assessment Technologies, Methods, and Applications in Higher Education
A method for placing students in writing courses most beneficial to the acquisition of new skills in which students use rubrics and guidelines to appropriately self-select a course.
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Redefining Writing Reality Multi-Modal Writing and Assessment
Deirdre Pettipiece (University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, USA), Timothy Ray (West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA), and Justin Everett (University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, USA)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-667-9.ch019
Abstract
Perhaps due to its applicability as a performance of skill sets in virtually all disciplines, writing as a mechanism for measuring student success is more persistent than ever. New technologies, such as computerized scoring and distanced assessments, make these writing assessments readily available, affordable, replicable, and transferable. However, determining the value of the texts produced with new technologies is difficult. Therefore, this chapter introduces a variety of multi-modal writing assessment methods and discusses potential ways to determine the value of the student texts produced in them.
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