Effective Use of Rubrics to Assess Student Learning

Effective Use of Rubrics to Assess Student Learning BY SHOBHIT VERMA ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TIET

What is a Rubric ? ØA Rubric is an assessment tool used to measure students work. Ø It is a scoring guide that seeks to evaluate a student's performance based on some criteria’s rather than a single numerical score. ØA rubric is a working guide for students and teachers, usually handed out before the assignment begins in order to get students to think about the criteria on which their work will be judged.

Rubric for Major Project Criteria Selection of Major Project (Topic) Knowledge of the Project (Topic) Defines Principle & able to gives explanation Knowledge of components/programming etc. Proper Designing and Model Construction Proper representation of project file. Ability to work in group/Team. No Score(0) 1 2 3 4

Criteria No Score(0) 1 2 3 4 Selection of No effort is Little efforts Efforts are Appreciable Full hearted Major Project made for are made for made to find efforts are (Topic) finding a made for finding major made for project topic selecting finding which is relevant to major related to industry but project topic latest not sure industrial whether they industry and trend. will be able major relevant to almost sure relevant to surety that it to implement that it will be it or not. implemented

Criteria No Score(0) Knowledge Have no of components/ idea about programmi the ng etc. components 1 2 3 4 Have little Have detail bit idea knowledge of about the components and the the components or the and the programmin programmi g to be used programmin g to be used ng to be but does not g to be used in the project. and the g to be used know how to and is able to implement it. by getting some help. by himself/ herself.

Criteria No Score(0) Ability to Comforta Not very work in ble when group/Team. works alone. 1 2 3 4 Can work in Find easy to Feels very comfortable a group but work in a comfortable while sometimes group and while working in hesitate to rarely find it working in a group. express difficult to views. collaborate can easily in a group and coordinate among the group.

Rubric for Theory Subject Criteria Overview of the subject. Basics details related of the subject. Knowledge and understanding of the course material of the subject. Proper understanding of the diagrams Numerical solving ability (if Numericals are included in the course) Full coverage of the syllabus. Ability to relate the subject with the new technological advances No Score 1 2 3 4

Criteria No Score Overview of the subject. 1 2 3 4 No effort is Effort is Knows the made to overview of know the subject the subject overview of and able to the subject understand but unable and able to it to to understand maximum understand it to some it. extent. it fully.

Criteria No Score(0) 1 2 3 4 Proper Does not Observes Observers Observes understan have any the diagram the ding of the idea But unable diagram and able to Diagrams about to and able to understand able to what the understand it to understan diagram it. d it fully. represent s or stands for. it slightly. maximum extent. diagram

Criteria No Score(0) 1 2 3 4 Numerical Have no solving clue about s the ability (if the numerical and Understand numerical Numericals numerical. but does not and are know how identifies implements included in to solve it. the formula the course) to be used. but do and mistakes calculate while the performing accurate calculations. answer.

Rubric for Laboratory Criteria Number of practical's along with their aim. Details of the apparatus/Software/Tool required Theory behind the aim of the practical Working / Implementation/Conducting of practical's Result observation Graph/Curve plotting if required No Score 1 2 3 4

Criteria No Score 1 2 3 4 Details of the apparatus/ Software/ Tool required No idea about the apparatus /software/t ool used. Knows about the apparatus /software/t ool used but unable to understand that how to use it. Knows about the apparatus /software/to ol used. And able to understand a little about how to use the apparatus. Knows about the apparatus /software/t ool used. And able to understand a how to use the apparatus to maximum extent. Knows about the apparatus /software/t ool used. And able to understand a how to use the apparatus to fully.

Rubric related to slide presentation Criteria Overall Presentation Spelling mistakes in the slide Grammatical mistakes Content ? ? ? ? No Score 1 2 3 4

Criteria No Score(0) Overall Till the presentation end of the presentati on not a single person knows for what this presentati on was conducted. 1 2 3 4 Few are able to understand why this presentatio n was conducted and are also willing to give suggestions. Most of them are able to understand why this presentatio n was conducted and are also willing to give suggestions. Each and everyone understand s why this presentatio n was conducted and are willing to give suggestion.

Rubric related to Classroom Teaching(Students can also design this) Criteria No Score Well Prepared study material available. Use of New methodology ( Roleplay, Animation , Analogy etc. ) ? ? ? 1 2 3 4

Advantages of Rubrics improve student performance by clearly showing the student how their work will be evaluated and what is expected. Rubrics allow assessment to be more objective and consistent. Rubrics help students become better judges of the quality of their own work. Rubrics reduce the amount of time teachers spend evaluating student work. Rubrics provide students with more informative feedback about their strengths and areas in need of improvement. Rubrics are easy to use and easy to explain.

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