The document outlines a workshop on using rubrics for marking and feedback. It defines a rubric as combining assessment criteria with grading standards to describe performance levels. Rubrics can help clarify expectations, communicate expectations, simplify grading, support consistent grading, and provide feedback. The workshop involves participants developing or modifying a rubric according to guidelines and assessing another participant's rubric.

1. Using Rubrics for Marking and
Feedback - workshop
Institute of Technology Carlow, TEL week 2016
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Sharon Flynn
Assistant Director, Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
National University of Ireland, Galway
Email: sharon.flynn@nuigalway.ie
Twitter: @sharonlflynn
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2. What is a rubric?
A rubric combines assessment criteria with grading standards
A rubric is more than just a rating scale, because a rubric will
describe the differences between performance at each level.

3. For example…

4. A rubric can be graded…

5. How can rubrics help?
• Clarify expectations
• Communicate expectations
• Simplify grading
• Support consistency of grading
• Provide feedback and feedforward
• Self assessment
• Peer assessment

6. Principles of Assessment
 Validity
 Reliability
• Effectiveness
 Comparability/consistency
 Transparency
 Practicability
• Equity
• Attribution
(Bloxham & Boyd 2007)

7. Activity
Based on an assessment that you currently use, develop or
modify a rubric according to the guidelines in the handout.

11. Activity
Based on an assessment that you currently use, develop or
modify a rubric according to the guidelines in the handout.
Assess the rubric of another workshop participant, based on the
rubric for rubrics, and give feedback.

12. References
Bloxham, S & Boyd, P (2007) Developing assessment in Higher Education: a practical guide,
Maidenhead, Open University Press
Mullinix, B., (2003) A Rubric for Rubrics. Available from
http://www.asu.edu/courses/asu101/asuonline/temp/rubric_%20for_rubrics.pdf
Tooher, M. (2012) Assessment Rubrics. Available from http://www.nuigalway.ie/centre-
excellence-learning-teaching/teachinglearning/assessment/