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Writing Placement in Two-Year Colleges: The Pursuit of Equality in Postsecondary Education [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 304 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x20 mm, Illustrations, unspecified
  • Ilmumisaeg: 17-Apr-2023
  • Kirjastus: University Press of Colorado
  • ISBN-10: 1646423798
  • ISBN-13: 9781646423798
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 304 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x20 mm, Illustrations, unspecified
  • Ilmumisaeg: 17-Apr-2023
  • Kirjastus: University Press of Colorado
  • ISBN-10: 1646423798
  • ISBN-13: 9781646423798
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"Writing Placement in Two-Year Colleges brings together two-year college teacher-scholar-activists from across the U.S. to share stories, strategies, and data about local efforts at reforming writing placement assessment to advance educational access andequity. The chapters in this edited collection help faculty and writing program administrators navigate the shifting landscape of placement in the 2020s. Contributors demonstrate how two-year colleges have addressed local and state-level pressures for reform, especially at a time when the nation has been rocked by the COVID-19 pandemic with its inequitable economic, social, and physical toll"--

Writing Placement in Two-Year Colleges: The Pursuit of Equity in Postsecondary Education brings together two-year college teacher-scholar-activists from across the U.S. to share stories, strategies, and data about local efforts at reforming writing placement assessment to advance educational access and equity.

Writing Placement in Two-Year Colleges brings together two-year college teacher-scholar-activists from across the U.S. to share stories, strategies, and data about local efforts at reforming writing placement assessment to advance educational access and equity. The chapters in this edited collection help faculty and writing program administrators navigate the shifting landscape of placement in the 2020s. Contributors demonstrate how two-year colleges have addressed local and state-level pressures for reform, especially at a time when the nation has been rocked by the COVID-19 pandemic with its inequitable economic, social, and physical toll.
Acknowledgments vii
Foreword ix
Lizbett Tinoco
Introduction 3(32)
Jessica Nastal
Mya Poe
Christie Toth
PART ONE THE LONG ROAD OF PLACEMENT REFORM
Chapter 1 No Reform Is an Island: Tracing the Influences and Consequences of Evidence-Based Placement Reform at a Two-Year Predominantly Black Institution
35(24)
Jessica Nastal
Jason Evans
Jessica Gravely
Chapter 2 From ACCUPLACER to Informed Self-Placement at Whatcom Community College: Equitable Placement as an Evolving Practice
59(26)
Jeffrey Klausman
Signee Lynch
Chapter 3 A Path to Equity, Agency, and Access: Self-Directed Placement at the Community College of Baltimore County
85(22)
Kris Messer
Jamey Gallagher
Elizabeth Hart
Chapter 4 Welcome/Not Welcome: From Discouragement to Empowerment in the Writing Placement Process at Central Oregon Community College
107(24)
Jane Denison-Furness
Stacey Lee Donohue
Annemarie Hamlin
Tony Russell
PART TWO INNOVATION AND EQUITY IN PLACEMENT REFORM
Chapter 5 Narrowing the Divide in Placement at a Hispanic-Serving Institution: The Case of Yakima Valley College
131(20)
Carolyn Calhoon-Dillahunt
Travis Margoni
Chapter 6 Putting ACCUPLACER in Its Place: Expanding Evidence in Placement Reform at Jamestown Community College
151(22)
Jessica M. Kubiak
Chapter 7 Tracking the Racial Consequences of Placement by Probability: A Case Study at Kingsborough Community College
173(18)
Annie Del Principe
Lesley Broder
Lauren Levesque
Chapter 8 Mind the (Linguistic) Gap: On "Flagging" ESL Students at Queensborough Community College
191(34)
Charissa Che
PART THREE PANDEMIC-PRECIPITATED PLACEMENT REFORM
Chapter 9 Pandemic Placement at Cuyahoga Community College: A Case Study
225(18)
Ashlee Brand
Bridget Kriner
Chapter 10 A Complement to Educational Reform: Directed Self-Placement (DSP) at Cochise College
243(20)
Ella Melito
Erin Whittig
Cathy Sander Matthesen
Denisse Canez
Chapter 11 Community College Online Directed Self-Placement During the COVID-19 Pandemic
263(16)
Sarah Elizabeth Snyder
Sara Amani
Kevin Kato
Afterword. Placement, Equity, and the Promise of Democratic Open-Access Education 279(8)
Darin L. Jensen
Joanne Baird Giordano
Contributors 287
Jessica Nastal is interim dean of Learning Resources and Assessment and associate professor of English at Prairie State College. Her scholarship has appeared in Journal of Response to Writing, Composition Studies, ETS Research Reports, and Journal of Writing Assessment.

Mya Poe is associate professor of English at Northeastern University. She is the coauthor of Learning to Communicate in Science and Engineering and coeditor of Race and Writing Assessment and Writing Assessment, Social Justice, and the Advancement of Opportunity.

Christie Toth is associate professor and director of Undergraduate studies in the University of Utahs Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies. She is c-editor of the critical sourcebook Teaching Composition in the Two-Year College and recipient of a Mark Reynolds Best Article in Teaching English in the Two-Year College award.