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Online submission and Blackboard rubrics Adel Gordon | @ adelgordon Learning Technologist University of Northampton London BUG – 26 Apr 2013. What is a rubric?. Why rubrics?. Clarify learning goals from the offset Design materials and activities that address those goals
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Online submission and Blackboard rubrics Adel Gordon | @adelgordonLearning TechnologistUniversity of Northampton London BUG – 26 Apr 2013
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 Rubric design based on learning outcomes Make adjustments to teaching based on reflections Emphasise the use of rubrics Identify common areas of strengths and weaknesses Look for patterns Score student work using rubric Adapted from Stevens & Levi, 2013
How were they used? • Blogs • Presentations • Media files • Turnitin
In practice Rubrics set out expectations to aid the student to understand what they’re being graded against Rubrics let students know how their grade was calculated and where they could improve their work Develops/drives a level of professionalism and enables me to provide more timely feedback 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