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Quality and tyranny: competing discourses around a compulsory rubric

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posted on 2024-06-04, 03:52 authored by Lucinda McKnightLucinda McKnight, S Bennett, S Webster
This article takes the introduction of a compulsory rubric for assessment across all units taught in an arts and education faculty as an opportunity for the identification and discussion of competing discourses around this process. We identify five discourses that complicate those of quality and efficiency in relation to rubrics: imperatives for 21st century learning; authentic assessment; Indigenous perspectives; creative praxis and academic freedom. Through describing the resulting discursive conflict we demonstrate what needs to be negotiated in this particular context, for all staff, with implications for those experiencing similar tensions in their own contexts. We also consider what these tensions both enable and constrain for future assessment policy and practice.

History

Journal

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volume

45

Pagination

1192-1204

Location

Abingdon, Eng.

ISSN

0260-2938

eISSN

1469-297X

Language

English

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2020, Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

Issue

8

Publisher

ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD