Question: What are some
basic categories for assessment of student writing?
Answer/Quote: The authors
and their English department were unsatisfied with their original rubric for
student assessment. They reduced six categories to four: purpose, critical
thinking/analysis, intertextuality and audience awareness. “ ‘Intertextuality’ is a term we use to
describe the integration of a student’s ideas with outside texts, and we define
outside texts loosely: articles, books, movies, poems, advertisements, and the
ever-widening range of new media.” P. 54.
Whereas the six-category rubric seemed
unnecessarily complex and confusing, including the category “voice,” the
four-category assessment gave the teachers and students the opportunity to
explore definitions of and understanding
of the categories.
The scheme of assessment included the
following:
Paper
Assessment Sheet
Core
elements
(Scores ‘3’ and above are ;passing)
Purpose 6 5 4 3 2 1
Critical
Thinking/Analysis 6 5 4 3 2 1
Intertextuality 6 5 4 3 2 1
Audience
Awareness 6 5 4 3 2 1
Title: “From Rigidity
to Freedom: An English Department’s Journey in Rethinking How We teach and
Assess Writing.” C Strouthopoulos and JL Peterson. Teaching English in the Two-Year College (September 2011), 43-62.
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