What We Really Value : Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing / / Bob Broad.

• Author: Broad, Bob, 1960-
• Place / Publishing House: Logan : : Utah State University Press,, 2003.; ©2003.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Notes: "Dynamic Criteria Map of City University's Textual Qualities" inserted in pocket.

What We Really Value traces the origins of traditional rubrics within the theoretical and historical circumstances out of which they emerged, then holds rubrics up for critical scrutiny in the context of contemporary developments in the field. As an alternative to the generic character and decontextualized function of scoring guides, he offers dynamic criteria mapping, a form of qualitative inquiry by which writing programs (as well as individual instructors) can portray their rhetorical values with more ethical integrity and more pedagogical utility than rubrics allo

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; PROLOGUE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 TO TELL THE TRUTH Beyond Rubrics; 2 STUDYING RUBRIC-FREE ASSESSMENT AT CITY UNIVERSITY Research Context and Methods; 3 TEXTUAL CRITERIA What They Really Valued, Part 1; 4 CONTEXTUAL CRITERIA What They Really Valued, Part 2; 5 A MODEL FOR DYNAMIC CRITERIA MAPPING OF COMMUNAL WRITING ASSESSMENT; Appendix A: ASSIGNMENTS FOR ENGLISH 1 ESSAYS; Appendix B: SELECTED SAMPLE TEXTS FROM CITY UNIVERSITY; Appendix C: TABULATION OF VOTES ON SAMPLE TEXTS; Appendix D: SAMPLE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS; Appendix E: KEY TO TRANSCRIPT CITATIONS

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