1. Writing Across the Curriculum Pilot Project – DABCC Susan Wood

2. What is the question? Is every teacher a writing teacher?

3. What is the problem? The transfer of writing and thinking skills learned in composition and rhetoric courses at DABCC to other courses offered at DABCC

4. What is a possible solution? Assess the problem – Put together a team of DABCC faculty across disciplines to look at student data and student writing Learn about Writing-Across-the-Curriculum theories and principles Develop a plan to address identified problems/issues

5. DABCC’s Pilot Project NMHEAA Summer Retreat At least one faculty from each division at DABCC attended a three day retreat in Ruidoso this past summer to learn about assessment and create a plan for an assessment project

6. DABCC’s Pilot Project In our plan we: – Developed a mission statement – Clearly defined our goals and expected outcomes – Proposed a preliminary writing assessment tool – Generated a detailed timeline for accomplishing project – Asked for volunteer participants representing each division at DABCC

7. Pilot Project Plan Pilot Project group: representatives from all divisions (full and part-time faculty) Timeline: 7 working meetings between September and May

8. Pilot Project Plan Mission Statement: – To implement a Writing-Across-the-Curriculum program at DABCC that helps students meet the Communication and Literacy instructional objective

9. Pilot Project Plan Goals: – Assess the writing needs of DABCC students – Create tools for instructors and students that will standardize student-writing across the campus – Provide Writing-Across-the-Curriculum professional development to full and part-time faculty participating in project – Offer a support structure to faculty participating in project

10. Pilot Project Plan Outcomes – A tool to help teachers design writing assignments – A revised rubric to evaluate student-writing campus-wide – A recommendation report based on assessment data

11. Preliminary tool DABCC Pilot Project Writing Standards WAC Pilot Project Trait Analysis Sheet

12. Pilot Project Plan Next steps – Conduct benchmarking – Provide professional development – Create and conduct surveys – Redesign assessment tool for students – Create “writing assignment creation” tool for instructors – Create, administer and assess writing assignments using tools – Assess pilot project and write recommendation report

13. Preliminary Data ENGL 111 students

14. Preliminary Data DABCC Associate Degree Graduates

15. Preliminary Data ENGL 111 students

16. Q&A What do you think? What are your suggestions?