Dilemma 7
What rubric to use?
Rubrics are standardized assessment tools that can be given to a student prior to learning a skill. In this way they understand the goals and objectives and can self assess their progress. This transparency is an important part of making students the center of their learning. They can use the testing towards formative learning. The rubric also helps the examiner to test validity, reliability. Rubrics provide some standardization within the authentic assessment flexibility.
They can be unwieldy and hard to assess but it seems fair to a student to let them know the process expected.
Authentic assessment needs to be culturally, racially fair and equal by using multiple raters- peers, self, facilitator and individual performance. This expands the nightmare How do you test for inter-rater reliability and validity?
What rubric to use?
Rubrics are standardized assessment tools that can be given to a student prior to learning a skill. In this way they understand the goals and objectives and can self assess their progress. This transparency is an important part of making students the center of their learning. They can use the testing towards formative learning. The rubric also helps the examiner to test validity, reliability. Rubrics provide some standardization within the authentic assessment flexibility.
They can be unwieldy and hard to assess but it seems fair to a student to let them know the process expected.
Authentic assessment needs to be culturally, racially fair and equal by using multiple raters- peers, self, facilitator and individual performance. This expands the nightmare How do you test for inter-rater reliability and validity?
Rubrics can factor in this flexibility.
Rubrics can be holistic as the self-assessment in this unit.
Analytic rubrics breakdown the various goals and objectives to be met and gives a scoring analysis for each.
What rubrics do you use?
Further reading:
Mertler, C.A. (2001) Designing and scoring rubrics Practical Assessment research and evaluation 7(25) retrieved 11/5/2007
http://pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=7&n=25
Burgess, H (nd) Self and Peer Assessments The Higher Education Academy, Social Policy and Social Work retrieved 9/5/2007
http://www.swap.ac.uk/learning/Assessment2.asp
Andrade, H . G (1997) Understanding Rubrics Educational Leadership 54 (4 pp 14-17 retrieved 11/5/2007
http://www.middleweb.com/rubricsHG.html
Score (nd)Rubrics retrieved Googlesearch 13/5/2007
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/trubrics.htm
3 comments:
The subject I referred to in previous comments uses an assessment rubric for the business plan, and students love it.
For our Marketing subject I've managed to get the academic to publish criteria that are not a proper rubric, but they are a clear explanation of what is required for different grades, and this has also improved student satisfaction with their assignment results.
At the moment we're in the very, very early stages of desiging a new assessment model for our Management Perspectives subject, and we're looking to include assessment of student online discussion posts - and I've already expressed the view that if we do, there has to be a proper assessment rubric developed for it.
I've been quite impressed with some of the assessment rubrics I've seen in this course, and that is influencing me to push academics down this track - I think they're brilliant for transparency and I think they act as an important learning tool. I think they're a crucial aid for self-assessment - how can you self-assess if you don't know what the criteria are?
I also think they're a way of incorporating critereon referenced assessment into a normative assessment system. And whilst they may be challenging to design, I think they force the academic to articulate how a student will be assessed.
Sounds like lots of changes in your place of work Sharon. I thank you for your input to this event.
Is there a place for students to create their own socially construceted rubric or self assessment do you think?
Joyce
I think you could definitely get upper primary school and secondary school students to create their own rubrics - maybe middle primary schools students too. I think they'd probably enjoy it, and I think it would be a great learning tool for them for later in their education.
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