This webinar discusses rubrics, including what they are, their parts, and how to create them in Blackboard. A rubric is a tool that clearly communicates expectations for an assignment and allows for consistent grading. It includes standards of excellence, criteria being assessed, and detailed indicators describing performance levels. Rubrics guide student work, assess learning outcomes, and streamline grading/feedback. The presenters demonstrate how to prepare rubrics, enter them into Blackboard, associate them with assignments, and use them to provide grades and feedback. Attendees are encouraged to use online rubric tools and consider rubrics' benefits for instruction.
2. Presented by
Dr. Julia VanderMolen
Department Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Health and Science (Online)
Dr. Scott Benton, Course Coordinator and Adjunct Faculty Science (online)
5. Abstract
• This webinar is for faculty interested
in learning more about rubrics and
how to use the new rubric tool in
Blackboard to assess student work.
6. Topics Covered
You will learn the basics of a rubric
– The what
– The why
– The parts of a rubric
You will be able to create rubrics to:
– Guide student performance
– Measure robust learning outcomes
– Streamline grading and feedback
7. What is a rubric?
• A rubric is a lesson in quality.
• A public declaration of expectations.
• A communication tool.
• A self-assessment tool for learners.
• A gauge for examining performance.
• A self-fulfilling prophecy.
8. What Can You Assess
with a Rubric?
• Projects
• Essays
• Research Papers
• Lab Work
• Discussions
• Presentations
• ePortfolios
• ….
12. Criteria
• The specific areas for assessment.
• Focus areas for instruction.
• Clear and relevant.
• Age appropriate.
• Form and function represented.
13. Indicators
• Descriptors of level of performance
for the criteria.
• Clear, observable language.
• Clear to the learner.
• Examples for learners.
14. Problems with current practice
• Consistency
• Accuracy
• Clarity
• Utility
• Power
• Intent
15. The Whole is the Sum of Its
Parts
• P = parts
• W = whole
• P+P+P=W
16. How do rubrics alter instruction?
• The teacher commits to teaching quality.
• The teacher commits to assisting the
student self-assess.
• The focus is on each product and/or
performance.
• The labels are removed from students.
• Specificity appears in all communications.
• Everyone gives and receives feedback.
17. Whom does a rubric assist?
• It is a feedback system for students to
judge a product or performance.
• It is a feedback tool for teachers to
provide clear, focused coaching to the
learner.
• It is a system that promotes consistent
and meaningful feedback over time in a
building and between buildings.
• It is a communication tool for parents.
18. Issues for implementation:
• Special populations.
• Applications for teaching “criteria”.
• Developmental rubrics.
• First and second draft.
• Consistency across grades/departments.
• Changing tasks.
• Weighting for grades.
• Report cards.
19. Developing a Rubric with My
Students:
• Based on background of students for
the particular work.
• Examine professional criteria.
• Focus on specific criterion.
20. What makes a quality RUBRIC?
• Clear essential • If points… clear to
criteria. students upfront.
• Realistic number of • The sequence of
criteria. criteria is
• Explicit, observable deliberate.
indicators. • High interjudge
reliability.
• Tested out with
students.
21. Skills for Implementation
• Knowledge and experience with
specific skill
• Practice with rubric
• Objectivity
• Presentation of rubric in advance
to be sure all participants
understand
22. How do I get started?
• Critique current models.
• Ask students to define “quality” in
relation to specific product or
performance.
• Translate into a modest rubric.
23. Okay Now for Bb!
1. How should I prepare for creating a
rubric in Blackboard?
2. How do I enter a rubric in Blackboard?
3. How do I edit the Rubric Grid?
4. How do I associate a rubric with an
5. assessment?
6. How do I grade with rubrics?
7. How do I view a Rubric Evaluation
Report?
24. Creating a Rubric in Blackboard
How do I enter a rubric in
Blackboard?
1. Control Panel > Course Tools >
Rubrics
2. Click on Create Rubric button.
29. Other Tools of
Interest and Ideas
• roobrix: A Grading Tool
Converting a rubric score to a percent grade:
http://roobrix.com/
• Using MS Excel and formulas
• Allen, D., & Tanner, K. (2006). Rubrics: Tools for
Making Learning Goals and Evaluation Criteria
Explicit for Both Teachers and Learners. CBE—
Life Sciences Education, 5, 197–203.
Being a public declaration of expectations makes it not hidden, and especially not dependent on teacher mood swings.
The parts of the rubric call attention to parts of my assignment so I can revise (improve) it. Rubric comes from the Latin: Rubrica, which means: highlight in red, used to call attention to something (not to mark errors).
Grids, feedback systems, surveys should have EVEN numbers of choices, so people are forced to make a choice. If you use ODD number of choices, people will tend to chose a middle one! Results will not be as accurate.
This is the hardest part! It tells the student what the levels of performance should look like very clearly.
Rubrics give students guidelines to evaluate their own work. Whenever you can QUANTIFY – do it!
Issues: Language accessibility Helpful to show, don’t tell Negative language (power of language) Language is very subjective Hard to define qualitative issues
Model aspects (qualitative) you want students to learn (such as something insightful and/or original).
You don’t have to use the rubric all at once! You can do some parts at a time with students.
Rubrics are very skill oriented. You can use them to tally grades. So a kid who gets a B- knows why and where s/he can improve.
You don’t change the scale, you can change the task. Rubrics deal also with motivation and how I am related to others.
We need to teach the students to use the rubrics as a TOOL (not only as an evaluation). Create a habit of mind = self-assess.
Grade not using the rubric then grade with the rubric Do a test run
iRubric Google Forms and Rubrics http://web2educationuk.wetpaint.com/ http://rubrix.com/index.html Coastline College Rubric Generator v .01:http://rubrics.coastline.edu/ http://myt4l.com/index.php?v=pl&page_ac=view&type=tools&tool=rubricmaker