Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment by Maja Wilson

Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment by Maja Wilson

The book you're about to read is not only a superb analysis of rubrics but a lesson in how to apply careful thinking to classroom practice.
-Alfie Kohn, Author of The Case Against Standardized Testing

This book will create the conversations educators desperately need-about accurate assessment, quality in writing, and informed teaching.
-Randy Bomer, Author of For a Better World

The conventional wisdom in English education is that rubrics are the best and easiest tools for assessment. But sometimes it's better to be unconventional. In Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment, Maja Wilson offers a new perspective on rubrics and argues for a better, more responsive way to think about assessing writers' progress.

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 Assessment gives 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.

Stop listening to the conventional wisdom, and turn instead to a compelling new voice to find out why rubrics are often replaceable. Open Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment and let Maja Wilson start you down the path to more sensitive, authentic style of writing assessment.

Wilson, Maja: - Maja Wilson is an Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Maine, Farmington. She is the author of Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment, which won the Council on English Education's Britton Award in 2007. She has also written various articles about writing assessment, response to student writing, and the accountability movement. She has taught in public schools for over twenty years.

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ISBN 13	9780325008561
ISBN 10	0325008566
Titel	Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment
Autor	Maja Wilson
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Heinemann USA
Erscheinungsjahr	2006-02-01
Seitenanzahl	135
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.