1. Design and examples of assessment rubrics
Rubrics are tools that enable teachers and students to clearly define expectations and performance criteria in assessment activities. A rubric generally contains a set of described criteria, and often levels of their achievement, according to which student work will be assessed. Since each assignment is different and involves different criteria for evaluating student work, rubrics should be prepared or at least adapted for each individual assignment.
The term rubric is used to describe analytic and holistic assessment rubrics, but also marking sheets, assessment/grading guides, scoring schemes, guides for awarding grades, etc. Moodle uses the term rubric for an empty and customisable template that becomes an assessment rubric once it is filled with criteria, standards, and descriptions, and sometimes with performance levels.
Basically, it is a grading scheme for a given assignment that combines assessment criteria and standards and provides details on how performance in each of the criteria will be graded. Clearly defined and publicly available assessment criteria and grading schemes/rubrics are key to ensuring fair and consistent assessment of all work and across all disciplines.
Although assessment rubrics are not a universal solution for completely precise assessment and grading, they still provide a number of important advantages, as they can offer:
- a reference point for teaching staff at the faculty and department level with regard to assessment expectations
- a shared understanding and language for talking about assessment expectations between teachers and students
- confidence and guidance for beginners in assessment, helping them to engage more quickly with the community of teachers who are expected to assess and grade
- a degree of standardisation in assessment among multiple markers, which increases the reliability of assessment and grading
- a structure that can justify and support the assessments and grades awarded
- more transparent assessment and grading results for students
- a diagnostic opportunity for students, as rubrics provide guidance for learning and improving achievement
- a framework for writing feedback
- a framework for providing automated feedback.
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