An ongoing study evaluated the effectiveness of a writing across the curriculum (WAC) program at a small liberal arts college. Fifty-five out of 99 full-time faculty responded to a survey seeking to compare WAC faculty who had voluntarily participated in at least a 3-day workshop to faculty not involved in the WAC program. Pre- and post-workshop data were also obtained from 14 new WAC faculty who participated in their first WAC workshop. Results revealed that WAC faculty required writing in more of the courses they taught and that they assigned more short papers and used short, ungraded writing exercises during class time. Results also revealed that WAC faculty more often reported providing preliminary feedback to students on rough drafts during the writing process and more often provided written instructions describing the writing assignment's purpose and format in their courses. WAC faculty were more likely to require journals in at least one class and reported using ungraded journals about twice as often as the non-WAC faculty. Pre- and post workshop data obtained from the 14 new WAC faculty revealed similar trends. (Suggestions for future evaluation research, an annotated bibliography of nine resources on WAC programs, and survey results are included.) (KEH)
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- El Khawas 1990. 3
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- WAC workshop 5
- Music Theory 5
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- Classroom-based research 6
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- Faigley 6
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- WAC 7
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- WAC may 7
- Scriven and 8
- Measures can 8
- Scale and 8
- Daly 8
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- Now 1 will discuss the evaluation 8
- Psychology 9
- Fifty-five out of ninety-nine full-time faculty responded to 9
- Slightly more 9
- Blooms 10
- Table 11
- These 11
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- There item that new 11
- WAC faculty 11
- While would 12
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- None 12
- Before workshop 13
- In the 14
- El-Khawas 14
- Miller M. 15
- Research in 15
- Faig1ey 15
- Southern 15
- AlwayrnmetuneS 17
- Annotated Bibliography of Selected Resources 25
- Davis B. 25
- The evaluation 25
- Skinner 25
- Assessing 25
- The literature on 25
- After discussion 25
- This repoxt is based programs shows that the term VAC writing across the curriculum and 25
- EXELELt.121.11L.2.2LLLILEi 26
- Southern Illinois University 26
- Press. 26
- University 26
- A chapter on program evaluation 26
- Developing successful college writing 26
