Mya Poe of Northeastern University will deliver a talk, Intended Consequences: What Students Can Tell Us About Writing Assessment, on Monday, Oct. 19, 4pm in Austin 217. All are welcome.
Poe’s research focuses on writing assessment, diversity, and writing in the disciplines. In this talk she will explore several questions: How does assessment shape writing development? Are students of the high stakes testing generation so saturated with assessment that evaluation no longer matters? How do diverse students’ encounters with university writing assessment shape their understanding of what it means to learn in college? Are there ways that we can make evaluation more meaningful? She will discuss the implications of this research for teaching writing.
Poe has co-authored Learning to Communicate in Science and Engineering: Case Studies From MIT and co-edited Race and Writing Assessment, which won the 2014 CCCC Outstanding Book of the Year. She is also series co-editor of the new Oxford Brief Guides to Writing in the Disciplines and has two books forthcoming: Intended Consequences: What Students and Statistics Can Tell Us About Writing Assessment, and a co-edited collection, Writing Assessment and Social Justice.
For more information, contact: Tom Deans at tom.deans@uconn.edu