Graduation Term
2023
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Department of English
Committee Chair
Julie M Jung
Committee Member
Angela M Haas
Abstract
This dissertation is concerned with the context in which assessments are conceptualized and designed, with the implications of assessment for its participants and their communities, and with the institution of assessment—its claims, its values and practices, its relationships to power. With this in mind, in this project I will propose decolonization as a framework through which to: 1) recognize, witness, and address the complicit nature of assessment practices in maintaining “normal;” 2) disrupt and redress the slow violences of assessment in rhetoric, composition, and technical communication studies; 3) reimagine assessment through decolonial methodology, research methods, and assessment pedagogy with the intention of decolonizing pedagogical spaces and places. In these ways, this dissertation will extend existing scholarship in rhetoric, composition, and technical communication, creating more space to confront, witness, and redress colonialism.
Access Type
Dissertation-Open Access
Recommended Citation
Dooley, Lisa Schuler, "Decolonizing Assessment: Witnessing, Disrupting, and Reimagining Assessment in Rhetoric, Composition, and Technical Communication" (2023). Theses and Dissertations. 1734.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/1734
DOI
https://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2023.20231004061828132295.999983