Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment

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