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  • In keeping with PLU’s access, recruitment, and retention goals, we must expand our understanding of “effectiveness” in assessment to include equity-centered assessment practices.

    norming assignments across multiple courses in a program. (TILT Higher Ed) Alternative Forms of Grading The following websites and articles offer alternatives for doing classroom-based assessment.  Breana Bayraktar “Specs Grading” Asao Inoue “Labor Based Grading Contract Resources” Jeffrey Schinske and Kimberly Tanner “Teaching More by Grading Less (or Differently)” Jesse Stommel “How to Ungrade” National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) The National Institute for Learning Outcomes

  • The assignment helps writers imagine a sense of purpose for writing. When people write beyond school, their writing is driven by a need to communicate in order to evoke a specific response or to

    writing: a description, a comparison, etc. It is more realistic to imagine that a writer will utilize a variety of modes-description in conjunction with narration and persuasion-to achieve her or his aim.) Hand-in-hand with a sense of purpose is a sense of audience. If fact, real-life writing situations are often motivated first by the need to communicate with a specific group of people. Having a particular audience in mind when composing helps writers choose appropriate tone, style, and words, as

  • -- select a category to move to -- Policies & Guidelines Show more information about these links Academic Integrity An essential dimension of PLU’s mission is to provide for the intellectual, social, physical, emotional, and spiritual development of students. Student Code of Conduct PLU admits and enrolls students who possess the capacity for success both intellectually and personally at the collegiate level. Conduct Procedures The mission of the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities is

  • Tuesday, February 25, 2014 “The Writer’s Story,” 3:30PM, Garfield Book Company Reading, 7:00PM, Scandinavian Cultural Center, Anderson University Center

    Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA at PLU Tuesday, February 25, 2014 “The Writer’s Story,” 3:30PM, Garfield Book Company Reading, 7:00PM, Scandinavian Cultural Center, Anderson University Center Stan Sanvel Rubin is founding director of the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program at PLU. His third full-length collection, Hidden Sequel, won the Barrow Street Book Prize and was a Small Press Distribution bestseller. A fourth, There. Here., will be published in

  • Professor Joanna Gregson did research into writers of romance novels and found herself intrigued and surprised. (John Froschauer, Photographer) Romancing the readers isn’t that easy, prof discovers in research project By Steve Hansen It all started when a box of pink and lavender romance novels…

    joined the 10,000-member strong Romance Writers of America and began attending monthly meetings in Seattle and annual nationwide conventions, where, as you might expect from a group comprised almost exclusively of women, they were warmly welcomed into the fold. And, naturally, they started writing their own romance novels. It’s been a couple of years now, and Gregson is still about 40 pages into her novel. (Don’t expect anything, she warns.) But from the standpoint of getting the dish on the people

  • Faculty Activity Reporting (eFAR, Self-Assessment), and Faculty Review Guidelines

    Annual Assessment Report (link) view page To be completed by Associate Deans and Department/Program Chairs and Directors

  • Assessment is effective when it recognizes and accounts for the complexity of the teaching and learning process. Learning is multidimensional, and assessment should be as well.

    . Faculty play a critical role in the assessment process, and faculty benefit when they have the support of representatives across the campus community for the assessment process itself and for the time that it takes to do assessment well. Under the best of circumstances, assessment is collaborative, with a wide aim to understand the multiple components involved in student learning including libraries, technology centers and writing labs, to name a few. Jan Lewis, PhD, Associate Provost for

  • To be completed by Associate Deans and Department/Program Chairs and Directors

    Annual Assessment Report (link) view page To be completed by Associate Deans and Department/Program Chairs and Directors

  • Launched in 2017, the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Laboratory Residency Graduate Fellowship (DOE NNSA LRGF) provides  excellent financial benefits and professional development opportunities  to students pursuing a Ph.D. in  fields of study  that address complex science and engineering problems critical to stewardship…

    Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Laboratory Residency Graduate Fellowship (DOE NNSA LRGF) Posted by: alemanem / November 10, 2020 November 10, 2020 Launched in 2017, the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Laboratory Residency Graduate Fellowship (DOE NNSA LRGF) provides excellent financial benefits and professional development opportunities to students pursuing a Ph.D. in fields of study that address complex science and engineering