Scoring rubrics have become a common method for evaluating student work in both the K-12 and the college classrooms. The purpose of this paper is to describe the different types of scoring rubrics, explain why scoring rubrics are useful and provide a process for developing scoring rubrics. This paper concludes with a description of resources that contain examples of the different types of scori...

Competency-based learning requires making changes in the higher education model in response to current socio-educational demands. Rubrics are an innovative educational tool for competence evaluation, for both students and educators. Ever since arriving at the university systems, the application of rubrics in evaluation programs has grown progressively. However, there is yet to be a solid body o...

Abstract Background: Learning how to write a scientific paper is a mandatory part of medical education at many universities. The criteria for passing the exam are not always clear; the grading guidelines are often sparse and sometimes poorly defined. Therefore, the use of rubrics can be appropriate. Purpose: The aim of this study was to test inter-rater reliability and to test agreement for the...

Rubrics are such extremely useful tools for educators, yet their use has not been widely published or addressed in many education journals. Two books—one from 2005 and one very recent—address the topic in a very thorough way. Introduction to Rubrics may be considered the holy grail of the nature of rubrics and their usefulness. Along with an overall rationale for using rubrics, the how to and w...

As a tool for self-evaluation and also self-regulation, rubrics can be very useful in equipping the language teachers with an assessment device. Moreover, teachers need feedback for their professional development, but how feedback is provided is a challenging question. This study was an attempt to find the effectiveness of self-evaluation through rubrics on setting up group work activities by E...

Scoring rubrics are currently used by students and teachers in classrooms from kindergarten to college across North America. They are popular because they can be created for or adapted to a variety of subjects and situations. Scoring rubrics are especially useful in assessment for learning because they contain qualitative descriptions of performance criteria that work well within the process of...

The PULSE Vision & Change Rubrics, version 1.0, assess life sciences departments' progress toward implementation of the principles of the Vision and Change report. This paper reports on the development of the rubrics, their validation, and their reliability in measuring departmental change aligned with the Vision and Change recommendations. The rubrics assess 66 different criteria across five a...

Rubrics as a measure of performance outcomes are nothing new to speech teachers. Evaluation of a clearly defined standard on a scale of descriptive criteria, which is then used to drive instruction, is the norm for the speech classroom. Kind of like with paradigms, the speech community has been quietly using performance rubrics apart from the frenzy of educational reform. However, the use of ru...

Assessing summaries is a demanding, yet useful task which provides valuable information on language competence, especially for second language learners. We consider automated scoring of college-level summary writing task in English as a second language (EL2). We adopt the Reading-forUnderstanding (RU) cognitive framework, extended with the Reading-to-Write (RW) element, and use analytic scoring...

Academic librarians seeking to assess information literacy skills often focus on testing as a primary means of evaluation. Educators have long recognized the limitations of tests, and these limitations cause many educators to prefer rubric assessment to test-based approaches to evaluation. In contrast, many academic librarians are unfamiliar with the benefits of rubrics. Those librarians who ha...