rubrics - research and enterprise committee presentation (uon)

Rubrics – they’re great. Honest!

Adel Gordon | @adelgordonLearning Technologist

LLS Research & Enterprise Committee19 June 2013

What is a rubric?

Why rubrics?• Clarify learning goals from the offset• Design materials and activities that address those goals• Communicate those goals to students• Guide feedback on students’ progress• Assess products to degree to which the goals are met

Andrade, 2005

• Comparing the quality of a student's work with fixed criteria and ‘standards’ is educationally more defensible than making comparisons with how other students in the course perform on the same or equivalent tasks

Sadler, 2009

The flip side

Source: http://introductiononlinepedagogy.pbworks.com/w/page/20123554/Rubrics

Recommended model

PLAN

TEACH

ASSESS

REFLECT

Rubric design based on learning outcomes

Score student work using rubric

Look for patterns

Identify common areas of strengths and weaknesses

Make adjustments to teaching based on reflections

Adapted from Stevens & Levi, 2013

Emphasise the use of rubrics

How have they been used?

• Blogs

• Presentations

• Media files

• Turnitin

In practice

Rubrics set out expectations to aid

the student to understand what

they’re being graded against

Develops/drives a level of

professionalism and enables me to

provide more timely feedback

Rubrics let students know how their

grade was calculated and where they

could improve their work

Moderation can take place immediately

and feedback is ready to be released

speedily

Rubrics give the marker confidence that you can been

more objective then subjective

Makes calculating the overall grade

easier when using a multifaceted approach to

assessment criteria

Challenges

• Usability– Saving

– Integration

• Intuitiveness– Importing/exporting

– Saving

• Moderation

References

− Andrade (2005), Teaching with Rubrics: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. College Teaching, [online] Available at: http://www.uri.edu/assessment/uri/guidance/documents/Andrade_2005_Teachingwithrubrics.pdf

− McKinney, A (2009), Introduction to Online Pedagogy, Assessment and Evaluation, Rubrics. [online] Available at: http://introductiononlinepedagogy.pbworks.com/w/page/20123554/Rubrics

− Sadler, R, D., 2009, Indeterminacy in the use of preset criteria for assessment and grading, Assessment and Evaluation, 34:2, 159-179

− Stevens, D. D. and Levi, A. J., 2013. Introduction to Rubrics. Virginia: Stylus Publishing

− University of Manchester, Rubrics – What are they? Why and how should I use them? [online] Available from: http://www.elearning.eps.manchester.ac.uk/rubrics-what-are-they-and-why-and-how-should-i-use-them/

Contact

• Adel Gordon

– University of Northampton

– Adel.Gordon@northampton.ac.uk

– @adelgordon

– http://blogs.northampton.ac.uk/learntech