The Rubric: An Assessment Tool to Guide Students and Markers

[EN] The changing environment for both students and lecturers dictatesthe requirement for giving feedback on assessment activities rapidly. In order to close this cycle of learning for the student and facilitate the feed-forward process, the development of rubrics has become an essential part of the...

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Autores: Cox, Georgina, Morrison, Julianne, Brathwaite, Beverley
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/93103
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/93103
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Higher Education
Learning
Educational systems
Teaching
Rubric
VLE
Performance Criteria
Feedback
Feedforward
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Sumario:[EN] The changing environment for both students and lecturers dictatesthe requirement for giving feedback on assessment activities rapidly. In order to close this cycle of learning for the student and facilitate the feed-forward process, the development of rubrics has become an essential part of the workload. The rubric tool needs to have clearly stated performance indicators and criteria so thatboth student and lecturer have the same expectationsof the assessment activity. The rubric must be robust enough to be able to capture the balance of being both an easy tool for marking but also detailed enough to give constructive feedback reflecting the learning outcomes. The rubric development, given its complexity, when constructing this tool, can be time consuming but eventuallybecomes time saving. Thereby reducing the grading workload effort of the lecturer while maintaining the knowledge gained by the students through the assessment activity.