Dynamic criteria mapping

S5). The co-authors contributing to the book you are now reading struggled with exacdy this concern whether their processes and outcomes were enough unlike rubrics to qualify as dynamic criteria maps. At the conclusion of this introductory chapter, I offer my reflections on their quandary. 

Dynamic criteria mapping seemed the best way to articulate the conflicts we saw brewing in our program, conflicts that wouldn t come out in the open so long as we had a traditional rubric that stood in the way of unauthorized assumptions about writing, (see Chapter 5)... 

TO BE OF USE" ADAPTATION TO LOCAL REALITIES ENACTS AND PROTECTS THE SPIRIT AND IDEALS OF DYNAMIC CRITERIA MAPPING... 

In this sense, the dynamic criteria maps also helped us to strive to answer Patricia Lynne s (2004) call for meaningfulness and ethics as key terms for the composition research that underpins our work. She writes ... 

Dynamic Criteria Mapping at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis... 

Headings for a Dynamic Criteria Map Derived from Discussions at the Spring 2004 English W131 Workshop... 

I studied the transcribed evaluators discussions to uncover the criteria that the four pairs of evaluators used in placing students into the three writing courses, and I examined the placement program s training and documents to reveal the writing program s stated curricular criteria. Once the evaluators rhetorical criteria were represented in the dynamic criteria maps and codebooks, these criteria could be compared to the placement program s stated curricular values. 

The dynamic criteria maps that grew out of this study captured both official and unofficial rhetorical values or criteria of placement evaluators ... 

With respect to data analysis, the study sought to determine if each placement evaluator s ten most frequently-used criteria were invoked in the first and second halves of the placement program with approximately the same frequency. In other words, to what extent did each pair use its ten most frequent criteria during the first and second halves of the placement reading sessions With respect to each dynamic criteria map, following each individual criterion, a 1st in parentheses indicates that the criterion was in the ten most-frequently-invoked criteria between June 12 and June 22, 2006 and a 2nd indicates that the criterion was in the top ten most-frequendy-invoked criteria between June 26 and July 19, 2006. 

One inevitable question is how then should rhetorical values or curricular criteria, once they have been discovered and discussed, be defined and articulated More specifically, how should the DCM documents be used to enhance existing documents and practices As this collection has demonstrated, a dynamic criteria map is not the end product of all DCM endeavors. DCM is a research method educators employ to design and enhance assessment measures, which may include a dynamic criteria map as an assessment tool, but not necessarily. 

Upon re-reading these inter-connected accounts of five adventures in dynamic criteria mapping, I am struck by how greatly these co-authors have enriched the theory and practice that appeared in its infancy in the 2003 book What We Really Value. The contributors to this volume have vividly and lovingly illustrated how much more flexible, adaptable, broadly applicable, and variable the DCM process can be than what I earlier did and described. In William James s words, they have shown what concrete difference DCM makes in people s actual lives. 

Summary of findings for Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action... 

What would our educational system look like if half, or all, of the institutions of higher education undertook Dynamic Criteria Mapping Conversations among colleagues would provide the best possible professional development and curriculum alignment students would have better access to the values by which their work will be assessed administrators would have reliable and meaningful information about the achievement... 

Dynamic criteria mapping in action Growing evaluative community locally... 

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