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Using Published Student Writing to Enrich Pedagogy
An undergraduate course which required a long paper analyzing a Supreme Court opinion structured that writing assignment as a series of smaller writing tasks in order to teach students how to do rhetorical analysis and ... -
Constructing a Professional Identity: Connecting College and Career Through ePortfolios
In this paper, we describe the use of ePortfolios at a public, land-grant university and document how the ePortfolio has been used to develop more authentic learning experiences. We discuss the best practices for ePortfolios ... -
Lessons from the Field: Moving from Data to Action
From its launch more than a decade ago, the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) was more than just a new survey. NSSE represented a campaign to focus the attention of higher education leaders, faculty, staff, ... -
Organizational Response to a University Writing Initiative: Writing in the Disciplines (WID) in an Interdisciplinary Department
The authors use an institutional theory framework to examine the impact of a newly adopted university-wide Writing in the Disciplines (WID) initiative in courses offered by three undergraduate programs housed in an ... -
How Writing Contributes to Learning: New Findings from a National Study and Their Local Application
Anderson, P., Anson, C. M., Fish, T., Gonyea, R. M., Marshall, M., Menefee-Libey, W., Paine, C., Blake, L. P., Weaver, S. (2017). How writing contributes to learning: New findings from a national study and their local ... -
Eleventh Annual Faculty Awards Ceremony
A ceremony program documenting the 2017 recognition of the Ralph "Shug" Jordan Professor of Writing and the Gary Brown ePortfolio Project Faculty Cohort Award recipients. -
Writing for Publication: Faculty Development Initiative Using Social Learning Theory
Demonstrating scholarly competency is an expectation for nurse faculty. However, there is hesitancy among some faculty to fully engage in scholarly activities. To strengthen a school of nursing’s culture of scholarship, a ... -
ePortfolio Assessment as Faculty Development: Gathering Reliable Data and Increasing Faculty Confidence
An ePortfolio Assessment Institute (AI) structured as a faculty development opportunity was undertaken to increase faculty confidence in teaching and assessing ePortfolios and to collect reliable data about student performance ... -
More Than Assessment: What ePortfolios Make Possible for Students, Faculty, and Curricula
To disrupt the notion that ePortfolios are primarily an assessment tool, this article-as-ePortfolio invites readers to consider what is made possible when ePortfolio initiatives lead with student learning in their structure ...