This document provides an overview of rubrics, including what they are, their benefits, and how to build them. It defines rubrics as scoring guides that define expectations for assignments and evaluate student performance against clearly defined criteria. The main benefits identified are ensuring consistency in grading, identifying student strengths and weaknesses, improving performance through feedback, and providing qualitative and quantitative assessment data. The document outlines the differences between analytic and holistic rubrics and their advantages/disadvantages. It also reviews the key steps to building an effective rubric, such as identifying standards and criteria, determining task and performance levels, and constructing the rubric.

1. Building Rubrics
An Overview

2. Objectives
At the conclusion of this module, you will be able to:
• Define what a rubric is
• Identify a analytic and holistic rubric
• Identify the benefits of using rubrics
• Review the steps to build a rubric

3. What are Rubrics?
 Rubrics are a way to define expectations
for an assignment or project in order to
ensure consistency in academic
performance.
 Rubrics can be thought of as scoring
guides that evaluate student performance
based on clearly defined criteria.
Essentially, rubrics are:
An assessment tool for communicating expectations of quality

4. So why rubrics?
Advantages Challenges
• Help ensure consistency when grading
• Help identify student’s strengths and
weaknesses
• The focused feedback can help improve
student performance
• Quantify behaviors and performances
• Provide both qualitative and quantitative data
• Clearly provide expectations to students
• Can be time consuming
• Less flexible
• Rubrics account for finished
products. If you want to include
"effort" it would have to be built
in.
Rubrics provide many benefits including the following:

5. Overall, rubrics are an invaluable tool for instructors to use to clarify
expectations and assess their students. There are different types of
rubrics that can be applied for different purposes. There are important
components that are needed in order to develop an effective rubric as
well.
Summary…
In the next section, we will take a look at different rubric types and their components

6. Types of Rubrics

7. Types of Rubrics: Analytic
 Analytic rubrics work best at articulating performance levels with
each criteria
Advantages Disadvantages
 Provide useful feedback that are
targeted to each student’s strengths
and weaknesses.
 More time consuming than holistic
 Criterion can be weighted in order to
demonstrate importance of each
dimension
 Could affect consistency among raters
unless criterion is clearly defined
 Assess specific dimensions separately

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9. Types of Rubrics - Holistic
 A holistic rubric is a general rubric composed of typically 3-5 performance
levels and a description of characteristics of each level.
Advantages Disadvantages
 Saves time by being quicker to create
and grade
 Lacks ability to provide targeted
feedback
 Can be utilized by trained raters to
increase reliability
 Criteria cannot be weighted
 Emphasis what learner can
demonstrate
 Not useful in planning instruction due
to not providing detail analysis of
student performance.

10. https://www.slideshare.net/LisaSnyder1/rubric-design-workshop

11. Which Rubric Do I Choose?
Holistic Analytic
• When you need to make quick judgments
about a students work
• When the assignment or project involved
has numerous criteria you want to
assess
• When giving a minor assignment (check,
no check…etc) • When you want to assess components
rather than the assignment/project as a
whole

12. Overall, holistic and analytics rubrics have their advantages and
disadvantages which help you determine which one to use for a
particular assignment.
Rubrics are composed of:
• Descriptive characteristics
• Criterion
• Levels of performance
Summary…
In the next section, we will examine HOW to build an effective rubric

13. Building Rubrics

14. Steps in Building Rubrics
• Identify what you want your students to be able to do or what you
want them to know by creating standards.
• Think about how students can demonstrate the standards and create
the task
• Reflect on what good performance on the assignment look like and
create a list of criteria (Typically 3-5)
• Construct your rubric using the criteria you created and determine if
you want to use holistic or analytic rubric

15. Thank you!