Draft: Technology Section to be added to the Outcomes Statement

July 2007

Dear WPA Colleagues:

WPA Works on Writing Assessment Practices and Higher Education Accreditation: this project includes developing a position statement on sound writing assessment practices (http://wpacouncil.org/node/884), identifying and evaluating resources for assessment design and implementation, and providing a WPA perspective on current changes in higher education accreditation policies and practices

WPA Works pages are online spaces for WPA members to work on developing and reviewing organizational initiatives such as position statements, guidelines, or other special projects.

The WPA Position Statement on Assessment

NOTE: This statement is a draft. While it is available for you to use, we also encourage and welcome your comments on this in-process document. If you have comments or suggestions for revisions, click on the "comment" link below. In your comments, please indicate the paragraph to which your comment applies (e.g., para 1, para 2, para 3, etc.) and include any changes or suggestions you would like to see included. We welcome comments and suggestions until November 2007. If you use this document, we also would welcome stories about how it was used and/or received.

Linked to this statement, below, are also useful background resources on current discussions about accountability, assessment, and accreditation.

To ensure consistency among all NCoW interviewers, please use the questions below. All interviews should include (and perhaps begin with) question one, "Are you a writer?" Following that question, please choose 3-4 questions. The goal here is to gather a wide range of responses to these questions. Of course, follow up on responses that are particularly compelling, lively, and/or intriguing - use your instincts!

Before interviewing, be sure to read the NCoW technical specs, which include instructions for both conducting and filming interviews.

If you want to contribute video footage to the NCoW project, please read (and abide by) these technical specifications so that the video is consistent among all interviewers/videographers.

Contacts:

NCoW content: Dominic Delli Carpini (dcarpini@york.edu); Linda Adler-Kassner (ladlerka@emich.edu)

Dear Members of the Council of Writing Program Administrators:

Yesterday, February 12, WPA Secretary Linda Bergmann emailed tokens for participating in our online voting for the 2007 WPA election of Executive board members and Vice-President.

If you did not receive an email with a voting token, check your spam filter. The email will be from "Linda.Bergmann@joe.sla.purdue.edu" and the subject line will read "Invitation to participate in 2007 CWPA Executive Board Election."

Shirley Rose President, Council of Writing Program Administrators

The North Carolina State Writing Program has a password-protected website that WPA members are welcome to visit:

http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/fchandbook

username: composition password: rhetoric

Enjoy!

The 2006 Search Committee for the Editor/Editorial Team for WPA: Writing Program Administration, the Council of Writing Program Administrators' official journal, has prepared some resources to assist prospective editors in preparing their proposals. The following documents are available as attachments (see below): --a copy of the 2006 Call for Proposals --a timetable for preparation of journal issues --a copy of the current journal editors' March 2006 Report to the CWPA Executive Bard