The ‘comparative analytic of ethnic forms’ developed in Andreas Wimmer’s Ethnic Boundary Making makes a major contribution towards specifying why ethnicity matters to different degrees and in different ways in differing social and historical contexts. My comment raises two issues for discussion. I question whether nationhood can be fully subsumed under the overarching rubric of ethnicity. And I...

In analytical writing in response to text, students read a complex text and adopt an analytic stance in their writing about it. To evaluate this type of writing at scale, an automated approach for Response to Text Assessment (RTA) is needed. With the long-term goal of producing informative feedback for students and teachers, we design a new set of interpretable features that operationalize the ...

The purpose of this study was to research the effect of the rubric on the level of learners’ cognitive engagement and to explore the effectiveness of Web-based concurrent discussions experienced by learners. The participants were 20 undergraduate students of D Women’s University and they were divided into six groups for concurrent discussions in Web-based environment. Three groups of 10 partici...

We investigated how students performed on weekly two-page laboratory reports based on whether the grading rubric was provided to the student electronically or in paper form and the inclusion of one- to two-sentence targeted comments. Subjects were registered for a 289-student, third-year human physiology class with laboratory and were randomized into four groups related to rubric delivery and t...

The portability of a system is a crucial design parameter for many products. In particular, for products where mobility is a critical customer need, portability is paramount. This is often the case for example, for products entering into service with the U.S. Military. A concise rubric for measuring a system’s portability can be a critical asset when designing or redesigning a mobile system or ...

BACKGROUND Teamwork is a 'soft skill' employability competence desired by employers. Poor teamwork skills in healthcare have an impact on adverse outcomes. Teamwork skills are rarely the focus of teaching and assessment in undergraduate courses. The TeamUP Rubric is a tool used to teach and evaluate undergraduate students' teamwork skills. Students also use the rubric to give anonymised peer fe...

Scientific writing is an important communication and learning tool in neuroscience, yet it is a skill not adequately cultivated in introductory undergraduate science courses. Proficient, confident scientific writers are produced by providing specific knowledge about the writing process, combined with a clear student understanding about how to think about writing (also known as metacognition). W...

OBJECTIVE The authors developed a rubric for assessing undergraduate nursing research papers for information literacy skills critical to their development as researchers and health professionals. METHODS We developed a rubric mapping six American Nurses Association professional standards onto six related concepts of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Informat...