Current WRaCS DE student Mikenna Leigh Modesto publishes article in Assessing Writing

Mikenna Leigh Modesto (neé Sims), a third-year WRaCS Ph.D. student, published the article “Shifting Perceptions of Socially Just Writing Assessment: Labor-based Contract Grading and Multilingual Writing Instruction” in the July 2023 issue of Assessing Writing. Her study presents cases of two instructors to learn more about how labor-based grading contracts are used in sheltered multilingual first-year writing (FYW) courses, as well as how these instructors perceive labor-based contract grading. She found that both writing instructors use labor-based contract grading to create opportunity structures for their multilingual students; however, their experiences using labor-based grading contracts varied depending on the extent to which they designed their contracts to align with their pedagogical values, and both instructors shared differing perspectives on how to best practice socially just writing assessment in their sheltered multilingual FYW courses.