How Rubrics Help Students Learn November 28, 2010. Aurora Wallis Durfee Kristin Murphy for The Chronicle.

This rubric differs greatly from the typical four-column rubric in three specific ways. 1) Whereas typical rubrics tend to look for competencies in student work, this rubric looks for competencies ...

I’ve developed an exercise, born out of frustration and revised through successive attempts, to achieve this goal. I have students devise their own rubrics for my classes—rubrics they get to apply to ...

Elementary- and high-school students will earn their schools at least partial "points" if they score in any of the test's three highest performance levels: ... Like the elementary rubric, ...

Students also emphasized that they discussed rubrics in their classes (a sign of best practices) and that they referred to them when working on assignments. When responding to a checklist, they noted ...

All of this, of course, assumes that the purpose of rubrics is to convey response. More often, however, they are used to enforce uniformity of evaluation—as a preparation to test-taking.

Revise your rubric before each course offering – especially if students’ performance on an assignment indicated that they need greater clarity about expectations. Invite TAs to test rubrics to improve ...

ExamSoft’s revolutionary rubrics assessment solution unites objective and subjective assessment in a single platform designed to provide a consistent and comprehensive framework for giving students ...