Overview

"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 allow. To illustrate the complex and indispensable insights this method can provide, Broad details findings from his study of eighty-nine distinct and substantial criteria for evaluation at work in the introductory composition program at ""City University."" These chapters are filled with the voices of composition instructors debating and reflecting on the nature, interplay, and relative importance of the many criteria by which they judged students' texts. Broad concludes his book with specific strategies that can help writing instructors and programs to discover, negotiate, map, and express a more robust truth about what they value in their students' rhetorical performances."

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Author:   Bob Broad
Publisher:   Utah State University Press
Imprint:   Utah State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.304kg
ISBN:  

9780874215533

ISBN 10:   0874215536
Pages:   180
Publication Date:   01 March 2003
Recommended Age:   From 19 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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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; Midterm, essays; ""Anguish""; ""Gramma Sally""; ""Pops""; End-term portfolios; Portfolio 2; ""Professional Helper"" (from Portfolio 3); Portfolio 4; Appendix C:; Tabulation of Votes on Sample Texts; Appendix D:; Sample Interview Questions; Appendix E:; Explanation of References to City University Transcripts; References; Index;"

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