Rethinking Rubrics

by Wilson, Maja

• ISBN13: 9780325008561
• ISBN10: 0325008566
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-20
• Publisher: Heinemann

Summary

Though you may sense a disconnect between student-centered teaching and rubric-based assessment, you may still use rubrics for convenience or for want of better alternatives. Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessmentgives you the impetus to make a change, demonstrating how rubrics can hurt kids and replace professional decision making with an inauthentic pigeonholing that stamps standardization onto a notably nonstandard process. With an emphasis on thoughtful planning and teaching, Wilson shows you how to reconsider writing assessment so that it aligns more closely with high-quality instruction and avoids the potentially damaging effects of rubrics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Foreword by Alfie Kohn	xi
Introduction: When Best Practice and Our Deepest Convictions Are at Odds	xix
1 My Troubles with Rubrics	1	(9)
2 There Is a Cow in Our Classroom: How Rubrics Became Writing Assessment's Sacred Cow	10	(17)
3 The Broken Promises of Rubrics	27	(16)
4 The Golden Rule of Assessment: Why We Don't Practice for Assessment What We Preach for Pedagogy	43	(10)
5 Agreeing to Disagree: The Heart of a New Writing Assessment Paradigm	53	(13)
6 Making Our Subjectivity Transparent and Useful: What Response Unmediated by Rubrics Looks Like in Our Classrooms	66	(13)
7 But How Shall We Grade? Investing in Process for the Sake of Product	79	(9)
8 How Do We Make Time to Make It Meaningful? And Other Questions About Assessment Without Rubrics	88	(11)
References	99	(4)
Index	103