[Englecturers] Fwd: ELWR Results - From John Briggs

[Teri Carter]

>FYI,
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>>Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:11:17 -0800
>>To: teri.carter at ucr.edu
>>From: John Briggs <jcbriggs at ucr.edu>
>>Subject: ELWR Results
>>Cc: laurie.petty at ucr.edu, aline.messer at ucr.edu
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>>Teri,
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>>    Please forward the following message to the TA and Lecturer lists.
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>>John
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>>TO:             ELWR Instructors
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>>>FROM:   John Briggs
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>>RE:             Fall Quarter ELWR Results
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>>      I'd like to thank ELWR instructors and staff for another good 
>> quarter.  In our final week the program met the challenge, once 
>> again, of administering and evaluating what is by far the largest 
>> examination on campus -- a distinction that is doubly significant 
>> because the exam requires an essay.   The Fall 2007 pass rate in 
>> the overall ELWR course (course points plus final) for EW 4 and E 
>> 5 students was around 78%, two points higher than last year's 
>> overall percentage.  EW 4 students passed at a 76% rate (four 
>> points above last year's mark) and English 5 students passed at an 
>> 84% rate, approximately one point higher than last year's 
>> percentage.  I read these results as a combination of stability in 
>> the grading system and perhaps as evidence of gradual improvment 
>> in our students' progress.  The final exam review committee, which 
>> was made up of the director, the co-directors, Arlen Appleford and 
>> Devon Hackelton, worked swiftly to reread approximately 10% of the 
>> exams  -- those written by students with overall point totals (out 
>> of the one thousand possible) just above and below the passing 
>> mark.   A significant majority of the readings agreed with the 
>> first reader.  Those that did not were almost all within a single 
>> step (e.g. C-/C) of the original assessment, with splits falling 
>> fairly evenly between higher and lower assessments by the second 
>> reader.  Following our procedure of the last three years, the 
>> review committee's judgment determined the exam grade when the 
>> second reading differed from the first.
>>An interesting fact: Approximately 90% (307) of the students who 
>>received a "C" on the final exam passed the overall course and the 
>>requirement.
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>>     Thanks again for your extraordinary efforts dedicated to this 
>> difficult, rewarding task.
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>>John Briggs
>>ELWR Director
>>Interim Director, University Writing Program
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