Assessing portfolios...

3 February 2019: Because one of my colleagues is on sabbatical this semester, I am covering her position, serving as an interim director of first-year writing and rhetoric. That means I also have to do the assessment of last semester's ENGL 101 classes. I am only about 15 portfolios (out of about 100+) into the (virtual) pile, but as always when I do something like this, one thought keeps coming to mind: it is so hard to teach first-year writing and we are so lucky to have great instructors doing this work for us at Shepherd.