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    "title": "Beyond Retrofitting: Crip Engagement, Radical Flexibility, and Alternative Futures for Writing Assessment",
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    "abstract": "<p>This article explores the limitations of current writing assessment models through a crip lens, critiquing the ableist assumptions embedded in traditional and alternative systems, such as labor-based and engagement-based grading. Drawing on Inoue’s (2024) concept of crip labor and the author’s own Engagement-Based Grading Contract (EBGC), the article examines how these models, while attempting to increase equity, still operate within the ableist structures of higher education. The author argues that true equity in assessment requires radical transformation, centered on the dynamic, diverse, and often unpredictable ways students engage with learning. The article introduces a crip assessment ecology that values radical flexibility, relationality, and disclosure, emphasizing the importance of embracing the varying forms of engagement that emerge in the classroom. By engaging with critical disability theory and praxis, this article advocates for rethinking assessment as a process that disrupts normative ideals and promotes inclusive, accessible, and transformative educational practices.</p>",
    "language": "eng",
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        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC-ND 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"
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    "keywords": [
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            "word": "disability"
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            "word": "labor-based assessment"
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    "section": "Special Issue on Neurodivergence & Disability in Writing Assessment",
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            "first_name": "Kelsey",
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            "last_name": "Hawkins",
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    "date_submitted": "2025-03-10T12:52:40.771000+03:00",
    "date_accepted": "2026-03-03T07:04:54.040259+03:00",
    "date_published": "2026-05-18T17:38:10.273903+03:00",
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