It is fine to use already developed rubrics from the internet or from your school's resources as long as those rubrics specifically match the criteria you are looking to grade. If not, you can adapt them to match. A good rubric is fair for all students and would yield similar results if used by multiple people to grade the same assignment.
Creating a rubric can be done from online sources and should be adapted to fit your courses. It should be fair and equal for all students.
I learned that there are several internet resources to use when creating rubrics.
A rubric should be fair to all students independent of racial, cultural, gender, or other biases. A good rubric is reliable if two raters using the rubric to rate the same work assign similar scores; in other words, raters should be in agreement. A rubric is reliable also if the rating actually represents what students can do.
Developing rubics involves thoughtful design and resources are available.
I learned the Rubrics should not have cultural bias.
We do norming of rubrics for our institutional outcomes.
In this module, I learned about tools for building effective rubrics. There are softwares like Word Processing and Spreadsheet Software which helps in designing rubric. Testing the effectiveness of rubric is a crucial step too.
The tips provided on how to build a rubric will be very helpful.
Descriptors are used to scale rubrics along with point values.
I learned a lot about practical aspects of building a new rubric. Info about online resources is especially important.
When developing a rubic it must be evaluated to make sure it meets the specific needs it is intended. The internet is a good place to look for different types of rubics.
A rubric needs to be fair for all.
to questions if it is reliable, valid and fair.
Rubrics should be reasonable lengths. I was given, by a university, a 49 element rubric. There was no way that this was a useful tool.
Creating rubrics is a dynamic process which likely will never end for. Using current student's work as well as colleague's input is helpful in fine-tuning your rubric.
I have found some sample rubrics to use to build my own using Excel.
Looking forward to building and testing it for reliability, validity, and fairness.
I learned the differences between a rubric and checklist, this can help me in the future.
There are actually successive steps to take when building a rubric. I will incorporate this into my course-building.
I thought that the piece that shared about making sure it was fair to ESL students (or the like) was a great point. We need to be aware of our own educational biases and expectations.
