In this Book

  • Organic Writing Assessment: Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action
  • Book
  • Bob Broad, Linda Adler-Kassner, Barry Alford, Jane Detweiler, Heidi Estrem, Susanmarie Harrington, Maureen McBride, Eric Stalions, and Scott Weeden
  • 2009
  • Published by: Utah State University Press
    • Viewed
    • View Citation
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 Broad’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 of Organic 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 Broad’s original process, to make DCM even 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 of 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.

Table of Contents

Download EPUB Download Full EPUB
  1. Cover
  2. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Cover
  2. open access
    • View HTML View
  1. Frontmatter
  2. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Title Page
  2. p. iii
  3. open access
    • View HTML View
  1. Contents
  2. p. v
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Copyright Page
  2. p. iv
  3. open access
    • View HTML View
  1. 1. Organic Matters: In Praise of Locally Grown Writing Assessment
  2. pp. 1-13
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. open access
    • View HTML View
  1. 2. The Journey is the Destination: The Place of Assessment in an Activist Writing Program—Eastern Michigan University
  2. pp. 14-36
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Chapter 1
  2. pp. 1-13
  3. open access
    • View HTML View
  1. 3. DCM as THE Assessment Program: Mid Michigan Community College
  2. pp. 37-51
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Chapter 2
  2. pp. 14-36
  3. open access
    • View HTML View
  1. 4. Designs on Assessment at UNR: University of Nevada, Reno
  2. pp. 52-74
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Chapter 3
  2. pp. 37-51
  3. open access
    • View HTML View
  1. Chapter 4
  2. pp. 52-74
  3. open access
    • View HTML View
  1. 6. Putting Placement on the Map: Bowling Green State University Appendix A
  2. pp. 119-153
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Chapter 5
  2. pp. 75-118
  3. open access
    • View HTML View
  1. 7. Bookend
  2. pp. 154-159
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Chapter 6
  2. pp. 119-153
  3. open access
    • View HTML View
  1. References
  2. pp. 160-163
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Chapter 7
  2. pp. 154-159
  3. open access
    • View HTML View
  1. Index
  2. pp. 164-165
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. References
  2. pp. 160-163
  3. open access
    • View HTML View
  1. About the Authors
  2. p. 166
  3. open access
    • Download PDF Download
  1. Index
  2. pp. 164-165
  3. open access
    • View HTML View
  1. ABOUT THE AUTHORS
  2. pp. 166-167
  3. open access
    • View HTML View
  1. Back Cover
  2. open access
    • View HTML View
Back To Top

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless.