Organic writing assessment : dynamic criteria mapping in action / Bob Broad ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Broad, Bob, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--Evaluation.

English language.

English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching--Evaluation.

College prose--Evaluation.

College prose.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher).

Evaluation.

Physical Description:

167 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2009.

Summary:

Educators strive to create "assessment cultures" (Huot 2002) in which they integrate evaluation into teaching and learning and match assessment methods with best instructional practices. But how do teachers and dministrators discover and negotiate the values that underlie their evaluations? Bob Broad's 2003 volume, What We Really Value introduced dynamic criteria mapping (DCM) as a method for eliciting locally-informed, context- ensitive criteria for writing assessments. The impact of DCM on assessment practice is just beginning to merge as more and more departments and programs adopt, adapt, or experiment with DCM approaches.

For the authors of Organic Writing Assessment, the DCM experience provided not only an authentic assessment of their own program, but a nuanced language through which they can converse in the always vexing, potentially divisive realm of assessment theory and practice. Of equal interest are the adaptations these writers invented for Broad's original process, to make DCM more responsive to local needs and exigencies.

Organic Writing Assessment represents an important step in the evolution of writing assessment in higher education. This volume documents the second generation in an assessment model that is regarded as scrupulously consistent with current theory; it shows DCM's flexibility and presents an informed discussion of its limits and its potentials.

Contents:

1 Organic Matters: In Praise of Locally Grown Writing Assessment / Bob Broad 1

2 The Journey is the Destination: The Place of Assessment in an Activist Writing Program-Eastern Michigan University / Linda Adler-Kassner, Heidi Estrem 14

3 DCM as the Assessment Program: Mid Michigan Community College / Barry Alford 37

4 Designs on Assessment at UNR: University of Nevada, Reno / Jane Detweiler, Maureen McBride 52

5 Assessment Changes for the Long Haul: Dynamic Criteria Mapping at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis / Susanmarie Harrington, Scott Weeden 75

6 Putting Placement on the Map: Bowling Green State University / Eric Stations 119

7 Bookend / Bob Broad 154.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780874217308

087421730X

9780874217315

0874217318

OCLC:

344074167