ERIC Number: EJ1137847
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Publication Date: 2017
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Let's Disagree (to Agree): Queering the Rhetoric of Agreement in Writing Assessment
Walker, Paul
Composition Forum, v35 Spr 2017
This article describes and theorizes a failed writing program assessment study to question the influence of "the rhetoric of agreement," or reliability, on writing assessment practice and its prevalence in validating institutional mandated assessments. Offering the phrase "dwelling in disagreement" as a queer perspective, the article draws on expertise theory and notions of ambience and attunement in rhetorical scholarship to illustrate the complexity, unpredictability, and disorder of the teaching and assessment of writing. Adopting a queer sensibility approach, the article marginally disrupts "success" as assumed by order, efficiency, and results in writing assessments and explores how scholars might reimagine ideas, practices, and methods to differently understand a queer rhetoricity of assessment and learning.
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Writing Tests, Test Reliability, Program Validation, Expertise, Failure, Congruence (Psychology), Educational Practices, Evaluation Problems
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Language: English
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