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Record Nr.

UNINA9910213817003321

Autore

Broad Bob <1960->

Titolo

What we really value : beyond rubrics in teaching and assessing writing / / Bob Broad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, : Utah State University Press, c2003

ISBN

1-283-26703-9

9786613267030

0-87421-480-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 p.)

Disciplina

808/.042/0711

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

Report writing - Study and teaching (Higher)

English language - Ability testing

Grading and marking (Students)

Report writing - Evaluation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Dynamic Criteria Map of City University's Textual Qualities" inserted in pocket.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-172) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

REFERENCESINDEX; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

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