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Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Between Modes: Assessing Students’ New Media Compositions - Madeleine Sorapure, Karios
In three of the very few articles to focus on the assessment of writing in new media, the authors--Pamela Takayoshi, Meredith Zoetewey and Julie Staggers, and Kathleen Yancey--ask how the strategies and criteria that we use to assess students' print writing apply to our assessment of their digital writing. How do we evaluate the coherence of a hypertextual essay, for example, or the clarity of a visual argument? Or do familiar assessment criteria such as coherence and clarity need to be substantially revised or even rejected when we are evaluating work in new media?

 



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