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

To tell the truth: beyond rubrics -- Studying rubric-free assessment at city university: research context and methods -- Textual criteria: what they really valued, part 1 -- Contextual criteria: what they really valued, part 2 -- 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: Explanation of references to city university transcripts

The result of a long-term study of one university's introductory composition program, Broad's approach to mapping the values that inform writing evaluation is empirically grounded, painstakingly analyzed, yet flexible, human, and pedagogically wise. Not simple, but surely practical, his method yields a more satisfactory process of exploration and a more useful representation of the values by which compositionists actually evaluate their students. With this important study, Broad moves the field far beyond rubrics in teaching and assessing writing