Overview+of+Rubrics

// Anders Jonsson // // Thursday, 30 August // // Verslag door: Caspar Groeneveld // Presents overview of studies into effectiveness of rubrics.
 * Scoring Rubrics for Student Learning **
 * Korte Samenvatting **

Finds that the use of rubrics may
 * Increase transparency
 * Reduce anxiety
 * Aid feedback process
 * Improve self-efficacy
 * Improve motivation

Effectiveness of rubrics is threatened when rubrics are handed out as is, without explanation or justification. Also, rubrics may have a different effect on boys and girls, and goal oriented students may use them differently than learning oriented students. However, research does not firmly agree on these results and, surprise surprise, more research is needed. The overview of the research is hardly encouraging. What remains clear is that rubrics can be useful but that design of rubrics is a careful process (which can be done in collaboration with students) and that rubrics are more useful for some modes of learning than others.
 * Toepasbaarheid **

In the discussion it became clear that beginning teachers tend to create 'complete' rubrics: huge tables that are bound to disappoint. Rubrics will not be complete, and if you use rubrics for summative testing, it will happen sometimes that you will mark higher or lower than is allowed by the rubrics, which raises issues of fairness.