Organic Writing Assessment

by Broad, Bob; Adler-Kassner, Linda; Alford, Barry; Detweiler, Jane; Estrem, Heidi

• ISBN13: 9780874217308
• ISBN10: 087421730X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-05
• Publisher: Utah State Univ Pr

Summary

Educators strive to create "assessment cultures" in which they integrate evaluation into teaching and learning and match assessment methods with best instructional practice. But how do teachers and administrators discover and negotiate the values that underlie their evaluations? Bob Broadrs"s 2003 volume,What We Really Value,introduced dynamic criteria mapping (DCM) as a method for eliciting locally-informed, context-sensitive criteria for writing assessments. The impact of DCM on assessment practice is beginning to emerge as more and more writing departments and programs adopt, adapt, or experiment with DCM approaches. For the authors ofOrganic Writing Assessment,the DCM experience provided not only an authentic assessment of their own programs, 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 Broadrs"s original process, to make DCM even more responsive to local needs and exigencies. Organic Writing Assessmentrepresents an important step in the evolution of writing assessment in higher education. This volume documents the second generation of an assessment model that is regarded as scrupulously consistent with current theory; it shows DCMrs"s flexibility, and presents an informed discussion of its limits and its potentials.

Table of Contents

Organic Matters: In Praise of Locally Grown Writing Assessment	p. 1
The Journey is the Destination: The Place of Assessment in an Activist Writing Program-Eastern Michigan University	p. 14
DCM as the Assessment Program: Mid Michigan Community College	p. 37
Designs on Assessment at UNR: University of Nevada, Reno	p. 52
Assessment Changes for the Long Haul: Dynamic Criteria Mapping at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis	p. 75
Putting Placement on the Map: Bowling Green State University	p. 119
Bookend	p. 154
References	p. 160
Index	p. 164
About the Authors	p. 166
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