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A rubric articulates the expectations for an assignment and enables faculty to assess student work in a rapid and consistent manner.
This Five-Slides About was developed for the TUES 2016 workshop Organometallica at University of Michigan. It was presented in conjunction with Chip Nataro's modeling of the development of a literature discussion learning object (Ligand effects in titration calorimetry from the Angelici lab).
The PowerPoint contains examples of different types of rubrics, describes a resource with many examples of rubrics, and introduces the development of a rubric for the Angelici literature discussion learning object.
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Faculty will be able to describe what a rubric is and be able to write one for a student assignment.
At the 2016 workshop, participants worked in small groups to develop the rubric for the Angelici learning object.
Evaluation
Faculty were asked to write descriptions of "excellent," "acceptable," and "needs work" responses for two of the questions in the Angelici learning object.
The participant-sourced rubric will be published with the Angelici LO. During the rubric writing exercise, faculty learned that writing a rubric is different than writing an answer key. Some participants wrote their rubric and then realized that they wouldn’t be able to share it with students because it contained the answer. They went back and changed the language so that it described the EXPECTATIONS for what a good answer would contain and not the answer itself.