College Composition and Communication Feb 2011

Being There: (Re)Making the Assessment Scene

Chris W. Gallagher

Abstract

I use Burkean analysis to show how neoliberalism undermines faculty assessment expertise and underwrites testing industry expertise in the current assessment scene. Contending that we cannot extricate ourselves from our limited agency in this scene until we abandon the familiar “stakeholder” theory of power, I propose a rewriting of the assessment scene that asserts faculty and student agency and leadership for writing assessment.

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College Composition and Communication
Published
2011-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc201113456
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modern rhetorical theory assessment
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