the rewards of rubrics workshop presentation
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The Rewards of Rubrics
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Workshop Objective
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
Create a rubric in Blackboard Learn.
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What is a Rubric?
A rubric is a scoring guide used to evaluate the quality of students’ constructed responses (e.g. products and behaviors).
Popham, W. J. (2012). The role of rubrics in testing and teaching. Boston [Mass.]: Pearson.
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When to Use a Rubric?
Use a rubric to:
• Measure cognitive skills essay, project, portfolio
• Not knowledge true/false, multiple-choice, short answer
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Why Use a Rubric?
Instructors teach and students learn more effectively when they both understand the nature of the curricular outcomes.
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What’s in a Rubric?
1. Evaluative Criteria2. Quality Distinctions3. Application Strategy
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1. Evaluative Criteria
Factors used when using a rubric to judge a student’s response (3-6 recommended)
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2. Quality Distinctions
Descriptions of different qualitative levels for each of a rubric’s evaluative criteria
a. Two-Directional Quality Definitionsb. Numerical Gradations
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2. Quality Distinctions
a. Two-Directional Quality Definitions
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2. Quality Distinctions
b. Numerical Gradations
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3. Application Strategy
a. HolisticAssess students work as a
whole
b. AnalyticAssess individual components
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3. Application Strategy
a. HolisticAssess students work as a
whole
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3. Application Strategy
b. AnalyticAssess individual
components
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A Rubric is a Rubric is a Rubric
What’s Wrong with these Rubrics? Rubric A Rubric B
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A Rubric is a Rubric is a Rubric
What’s Wrong with this Rubric?
Rubric A
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A Rubric is a Rubric is a Rubric
What’s Wrong with this Rubric? Rubric A
• Hypergeneral• Uses general terms
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A Rubric is a Rubric is a Rubric
What’s Wrong with this Rubric?
Rubric B
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A Rubric is a Rubric is a Rubric
What’s Wrong with this Rubric? Rubric B
• Task-Specific• Assesses a single skill
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A Rubric is a Rubric is a Rubric
What’s Right with this Rubric? Rubric C
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A Rubric is a Rubric is a Rubric
What’s Right with This Rubric? Rubric C
1. Skill-Focused2. Can be generalized to a wide
variety of narrative writing tasks
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ECP Winner 2012 Course TourCreate a Rubric
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Associating Rubrics
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Grading with Rubrics
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Best Practices
• Make sure the skill to be assessed is significant.
• Make certain all of the rubric’s evaluative criteria can be addressed instructionally.
• Employ as few evaluative criteria as possible.
• Provide a succinct label for each evaluative criterion.
• Match the length of the rubric to your own tolerance for detail.
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Questions?
Thank You!