Students who are solving open-ended problems would benefit from formative assessment , i.e., from receiving helpful feedback and from having an instructor who is informed about their level of performance. Open-ended problems challenge existing assessment techniques. For example, such problems may have reasonable alternative solutions, or conflicting objectives. Analyses of open-ended problems a...

30 Purpose/ Content (K) Paper has no purpose. No hypothesis/thesis is evident. Paragraphs do not support purpose throughout paper. Purpose is weak or unclear in four or more paragraphs. Paragraphs do not support purpose in 75% or more of paper. Thesis/hypothesis fails to assert idea. Purpose is fairly clear but lost in two or more paragraphs. Support for purpose is unrelated in at least two or ...

This paper describes a pilot study designed to examine the effect of “Writing Across the Curriculum” on students’ writing in the Information Systems discipline. Students enrolled in an introductory Computer Information Systems course in a large urban university in the southeastern United States were provided with a set of materials (Grading Rubric, Paper Format, Writer Review, Writing Rules, an...

This study aims to examine pre-service science teachers' (PSTs') model-based (MB) content knowledge (CK) and of students' understanding (KSU) chemical bonds. The participants the consist 229 senior pre service teachers. is a case from qualitative research designs. data were collected by using "Chemical Bonds Model Knowledge Test (CBMKT)". obtained analyzed "Model Based-Content Rubric (MB-CK Rub...

PURPOSE To determine whether disclosure of scoring rubric for objective basic clinical skills can improve the scores on the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) in medical students. METHODS Clinical performance score results of one university medical students (study group, n=345) were compared to those of another university (control group, n=1,847). Both groups took identical OSCE...

PURPOSE Reflective writing (RW) curriculum initiatives to promote reflective capacity are proliferating within medical education. The authors developed a new evaluative tool that can be effectively applied to assess students' reflective levels and assist with the process of providing individualized written feedback to guide reflective capacity promotion. METHOD Following a comprehensive searc...

Huffman, Tanner J. Ph.D., Purdue University, May 2015. The Effects of a Modeleliciting Activity on High School Student Design Performance. Professor: Dr. Nathan J. Mentzer. Modeling allows students to become more effective designers. High school technology and engineering students engage in engineering design challenges as part of traditional instructional practices. Model-eliciting activities ...

Rubrics are being used in a wide variety of disciplines in higher education to evaluate the assessments and provide feedback to students. Rubrics are traditionally implemented as paper-based table to grade assessments and provide feedback. The advancement of technology has integrated the Rubric Tool into Learning Management Systems (LMS) like Blackboard to facilitate online marking. In this con...

Objective – This study demonstrates one method of developing and applying rubrics to student writing in order to gather evidence of how students utilize information literacy skills in the context of an authentic assessment activity. The process of creating a rubric, training scorers to use the rubric, collecting annotated bibliographies, applying the rubric to student work, and the results of t...