Bob Broad

Ruth Hayes

Christine Rushforth

This ebook asks the children and young people, their carers and social workers about kinship care. The book is suitable for all those working and interested in children and young people's foster care, family placement, residential care, adoption, family support and young people's welfare fields. It will be of particular interest to managers, practitioners, social welfare academics and students who are seeking to understand the experiences of young people making the transition to adulthood.

Kinship care for vulnerable young people

Kith and Kin

Linda Adler-Kassner

Barry Alford

Jane Detweiler

Heidi Estrem

Susanmarie Harrington

Maureen McBride

Eric Stalions

Scott Weeden

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.

Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action

Organic Writing Assessment

Michael Theune

We evaluate poems constantly: as workshop leaders, competition judges and journal editors. But how do we judge the success of verse in these contexts? The authors propose an innovative method by which anyone involved in the assessment of poetry can be more transparent about how they value verse. This book foregrounds the ethical and professional obligations of poets, teachers and critics to conduct axiological inquiry so they can discover and publish what they value. We Need to Talk suggests why and how people who care about poetry should communally explore and document their shared (and conflicting) values. This is the first book to provide the background and theory, as well as a practical, working model, for the communal, empirical evaluation of creative writing.

A New Method for Evaluating Poetry

We Need to Talk

Bob Broad

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