College Composition and Communication Feb 2016

Adventuring into MOOC Writing Assessment: Challenges, Results, and Possibilities

Denise K. Comer ; Edward M. White

Abstract

This article shares our experience designing and deploying writing assessment in English Composition I: Achieving Expertise, the first-ever first-year writing Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). We argue that writing assessment can be effectively adapted to the MOOC environment and that doing so reaffirms the importance of mixed-methods approaches to writing assessment and drives writing assessment toward a more individualized,learner-driven, and learner-autonomous paradigm.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2016-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc201628063
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first-year composition writing pedagogy assessment online writing instruction
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    (Re)visiting twenty-five years of writing assessment
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  3. East (2019)
    Editorial: 25 Years of Assessing Writing
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  4. Rakedzon et al. (2017)
    To make a long story short: A rubric for assessing graduate students’ academic …
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