Month: February 2014

Does this Rubric Make My Assessment Look Big?  In my office, rubrics are frequently a topic of conversation.  Usually I am meeting with a faculty member, or a department chair about an assessment planned for the coming semester.  The conversation usually comes around to needing a rubric to evaluate a student performance.  So in this article I am sharing the basics about rubrics.  Something to get you started if you are currently a non-rubric user, or if you want to improve the rubrics you currently use. Rubrics at their most basic are a tool used by faculty to help in the task of assessing student learning.  Rubrics can be holistic or analytic, general or task specific.  Rubrics can assist faculty in assigning grades, or can be used for collecting assessment data. Holistic vs. analytic Rubrics  Holistic rubrics provide a single score based on the overall performance of a student on a specific task or assignment. Advantages: this type of rubric Continue reading Does this Rubric Make my Assessment look big?→