ERIC Number: EJ1002300
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 26
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A Forest of Forests: Constructing a Centre-Usage Profile as a Source of Outcomes Assessment
Huang, Li-Shih
Canadian Journal of Education, v35 n4 p199-224 2012
Most writing-centre administrators collect centre-usage information because it can generate one of the most basic forms of assessment. Such assessment can and often does determine resources in the institutional-funding process. In addition to responding to the call since the 1980s for rigorous scientific assessment issued from researchers and professionals in the field of writing centre research, assessment-based activities have also become necessary for accreditation, budget, and educational-accountability purposes at both institutional and programmatic levels. This paper reports on a usage-profile analysis of an outcomes-assessment project in the context of a newly established language-support unit. The centre-usage profile analysis focused on the 2,932 tutoring sessions conducted during the academic year, which involved 1,100 different users. In addition to the findings' implications for writing-centre research and practice, the information about the approach used in implementing this component may be useful to administrators, researchers, and practitioners in academic language-support units across institutions of higher education. (Contains 9 tables, 2 figures and 5 notes.)
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Laboratories, Use Studies, Profiles, Program Evaluation, Tutoring, Academic Discourse, English (Second Language), Native Speakers, Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Foreign Countries
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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