Adapting VALUEs: Tracing the Life of a Rubric through Institutional Ethnography
By Jennifer Grouling
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Adapting VALUEs traces the use of the American Association of Colleges and Universities' VALUE rubric for written communication at two small universities. Through the lens of institutional ethnography, Jennifer Grouling examines how faculty and administrators adapted the rubric for their own purposes and writing programs. Throughout the book, Grouling explores the ways in which faculty members' interactions on committees, views of the classroom, disciplinary affiliation, and racial privilege impacted their views of this national rubric. Overall, Adapting VALUEs offers valuable insights into the power of the rubric as both a national and a local text that dictates pedagogical and administrative practices.
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1. A Tale of Two Schools
Chapter 3. Mapping Assessment Power with Institutional Ethnography
Chapter 4. Defining the VALUE Rubrics as a Boss Texts
Chapter 5. Constraint and Choice in Rubric Adaptation
Chapter 6. Following the “Breadcrumbs” from Committee to Classroom
Chapter 7. Individualism, Racism, and the Ecology of the Writing Rubric
Chapter 8. The Individual, The Institution, and the Administrator's Dilemma
Appendix A. Research Participants / “Cast of Characters”
Appendix B. Written Communication VALUE Rubric
Appendix C. “Parts of the VALUE Rubric” from the American Association of Colleges and Universities
Appendix D. Oak Writing Program Assessment Rubric
Appendix E. St. Rita's “Rubric for Written Communication Across the Core Curriculum”
About the Author
Jennifer Grouling is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition and Director of the Writing Program at Ball State University. She studies writing assessment, teacher preparation, and other aspects of WPA life. She has also published two books on tabletop roleplaying games.
Publication Information: Grouling, Jennifer. (2022). Adapting VALUEs: Tracing the Life of a Rubric through Institutional Ethnography. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2022.1640
Web Publication Date: August 21, 2022
Print Publication Date: June 2023
ISBN: 978-1-64215-164-0 (PDF) | 978-1-64215-165-7 (ePub) | 978-1-64642-383-5 (pbk.)
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2022.1640
Contact Information:
Jennifer Grouling: jgrouling@bsu.edu
Perspectives on Writing
Series Editors: Rich Rice, Texas Tech University; Heather MacNeill Falconer, University of Maine; and J. Michael Rifenburg, University of North Georgia
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