Dean Adam Leibovich has asked the Writing Institute to undertake an assessment of the Writing-intensive requirement in several departments each year starting in Fall 2025 (working through all departments in the next few years).
The Writing Institute (WI) administrators will work with departments to develop a plan for their W courses and to ensure that the assessment meets their needs. Departments whose W courses are being assessed will need to assemble 3-5 readers to participate in the Spring Term reading and assessment (along with WI administrators) with a goal of submitting their final assessment report to the dean’s office before the end of spring term. The WI will help you identify projects for collection. Depending on your W courses, we may ask you to collect three student projects from each class we are looking at or, if you only have one or two W courses, we may ask you to collect a few more so we are seeing a range of projects. We will talk through these plans with the departments.
This assessment work can count as the annual assessment of undergraduate programs required of your department.
If you have questions about this process or want to move your department’s assessment up in the queue, contact jgrace@pitt.edu.