rubrics - research and enterprise committee presentation (uon)
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This was presented to the University of Northampton Research and Enterprise Committee on 19th June 2013TRANSCRIPT
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
– @adelgordon
– http://blogs.northampton.ac.uk/learntech