Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Using Rubrics in Student Assessment
- 1. What is a rubric?
- A rubric is a guide to assist the marker to make consistent and
reliable judgments about the quality of student work. They also can
be used to provide feedback to students about the quality of their
work and how they might improve.
- Rubrics usually include:
-Marking criteria- Grading
standards
- 2. Why use rubrics?
- Rubrics bring transparency to
assessment and marking for both
staff and students
- 3. When to use rubrics?
- All assessment types can be marked using rubrics.
However, caution should be taken when deciding the
form the rubric should take.
- 4. Types of
rubrics:
- Holistic rubrics – used when making an overall
or holistic judgement about the quality of the
response.
- Analytic rubrics used when making
judgements about each criteria separately
and then combining each judgement to make
a decision on the quality of the response
- 5. What kind of rubric is right for your
assessment task?
- Pros and cons of analytic and holistic rubrics
- ANALYTIC
- PROS:
- • Useful when task is composed
of discrete skills or knowledge •
Provides direct advice on set
criteria • Shows students specific
strengths and weaknesses •
Easier to moderate marking in
large classes with large number
of markers • Can take more time
to develop.
- CONS:
- • Can over-partition a task so that
the result is biased towards small
skills rather than the overall
achievement • Can produce a biased
results if criteria are not carefully
selected • Can focus on detailed,
lower level skills rather than deeper
understanding and knowledge.
- HOLISTIC
- PROS:
- • Useful for tasks that contain inter-related
skills and knowledge • Useful for tasks that
are holistic in nature e.g. works of art,
creative writing, engineering design, essays,
projects • Can focus on higher order,
inter-related knowledge and skills • May be
more authentic in nature • Can be quicker to
develop.
- CONS:
- • Can be more difficult to moderate in large
classes with large number of markers • May not
provide the detailed feedback students expect •
Can produce a biased result if markers are not
clear on what is required.
- 6. Collaborative rubric construction
- Whole-of-course approach to rubric development :
- More and more course coordinators
are using rubrics to define the
standard of specific generic skills
- Moderation of rubrics
- Moderation of rubrics is part of the wider
moderation of assessment which seeks to
ensure that procedures and practices are
valid and reliable and are aligned with its
stated standards, principles and ethos
- 7. Examples of rubrics
- -Essay rubrics-Class participation rubric-Research paper rubric-Annotated
bibliography rubric
- 8. Rubric Quality Checklist
- -The marking criteria-Descriptions of levels of
performance (standards)-The levels-The overall
rubric-Fairness and sensibility
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