{"product_id":"failing-sideways-queer-possibilities-for-writing-assessment-paperback","title":"Failing Sideways: Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephanie West-Puckett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNicole I. Caswell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWilliam P. Banks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFailing Sideways\u003c\/i\u003e is an innovative and fresh approach to assessment that intersects writing studies, educational measurement, and queer rhetorics. While valuing and representing the research, theory, and practice of assessment, authors Stephanie West-Puckett, Nicole I. Caswell, and William P. Banks demonstrate the ways that students, teachers, and other interested parties can find joy and justice in the work of assessment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A failure-oriented assessment model unsettles some of the most common practices, like rubrics and portfolios, and challenges many deeply held assumptions about validity and reliability in order to ask what could happen if assessment was oriented toward possibility and potential. Working to engage a more capacious writing construct, the authors propose queer validity inquiry (QVI) as a model for assessment that values failure, affect, identity, and materiality. These overlapping lenses help teachers honor parts of writing and learning that writing studies faculty have struggled to hold onto in a world overly focused on quickness and efficiency in schools. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through programmatic and classroom examples, \u003ci\u003eFailing Sideways\u003c\/i\u003e privileges what is valued in the classroom but traditionally ignored in assessments. Reimagining what matters in the teaching and learning of writing and using assessment data differently, this book demonstrates what writing can be and could do in a more diverse and just world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephanie West-Puckett\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of writing and rhetoric and director of First-Year Writing at the University of Rhode Island. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicole I. Caswell\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of English and director of the University Writing Center at East Carolina University. She is a coauthor of the 2017 International Writing Center Association Book of the Year, \u003ci\u003eThe Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam P. Banks\u003c\/b\u003e is director of the University Writing Program and the Tar River Writing Project and professor of rhetoric and writing at East Carolina University, where he teaches courses in writing, research, pedagogy, and young adult literature. He is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eRe\/Orienting Writing Studies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eReclaiming Accountability\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 284\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 8.9 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42733077135423,"sku":"9781646423699","price":77.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/548eeec858e90403bc2cfe22ab44573a.webp?v=1765134664","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/failing-sideways-queer-possibilities-for-writing-assessment-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}