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Les Perelman

Listed at 10 conventions, 2006–2016, 15 listings.

Career strip

2000200520102015202020251998 2006: speaker (1)2007: speaker (1)2008: speaker (1)2009: speaker (1)2010: chair (1)2011: speaker (1)2012: chair (2)2012: respondent (1)2013: chair (2)2013: speaker (1)2015: speaker (1)2016: chair (1)2016: speaker (1)

speakerchairrespondentfacilitatorother Grey band: 2000–2003, not in the corpus.

Listings

YearSessionRoleAffiliation as printed
2006An Assessment of Our Own: Experiences of Using a National Online Essay Evaluation to Create Institution-Specific Assessments
“All Assessments Is Local!: Why We Don’t Want to Become the College Board”
Speakers Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge → Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2007Alternatives to Current Institutional and National Writing
“Teacher-based, Technology Assisted Writing Assessments: Test to the Teaching”
Speakers Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA → Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2008Two Assessments of Writing Assessments
“Assessing by Whom or What?: The Strange Similarities between Human and Machine Grading”
Speakers Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge → Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2009From Validity to Validation: How to Use Validation for Better Writing Assessment
“The Five-Paragraph Essay Makes People Stupid and Machines Smart”
Speakers Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge → Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2010Teaching and Assessing Writing: A Twenty-Fifth Anniversary CelebrationChairs Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA → Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2011Online Essay Evaluations 2.0: From Assessment to Learning to Research
“Online Evaluation 2.0: Breaking Boundaries”
Speakers Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge → Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2012Communicating in Digital Environments: Implications of the WPA Outcomes StatementChair Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge → Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2012Communicating in Digital Environments: Implications of the WPA Outcomes StatementRespondent Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge → Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2012Enter Write Here: Online Writing Placement as Portal to AcademiaChair Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge → Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013Race and Writing Assessment: Cross-DisciplinaryChair Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington → Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013Composition and Its Publics: Three Moments of Reckoning from 1954–2012Chair Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington → Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013Composition and Its Publics: Three Moments of Reckoning from 1954–2012
“The Rhetoric of the Debate on Automated Essay Scoring: How We Can Win It and How We Can Lose It”
Speakers Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington → Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2015The Risks and Rewards of Assessment: A Workshop for WPAs and Writing InstructorsSpeakers Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge → Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2016Taking Action through the News Media
“Show Don’t Tell: The Rhetoric of Effective Presentations and Pitches to the Media”
Speakers Massachusetts Institute of Technology → Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2016Collaborative Teaching and Integration—Where Writing Positions Itself between STEM Education and Professional AccreditationChair Massachusetts Institute of Technology → Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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