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By Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel
Marking rubrics for assessments can be a powerful tool to set marking expectations and criteria for an assessment and support students in understanding the feedback they receive. Rubrics are most effective if introduced to students from the start and integrated in activities focused on the assessment. I have been using rubrics for my marking for many years. I feel that they also help to keep marking more consistent when several markers are involved in marking the same assessment. For this digest, I have collated some resources that can facilitate the implementation of rubrics in your teaching.
1. Creating Effective Rubrics by Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Alberta, Canada
In this short video, a short overview of rubrics is given. What are they? What should they entail? When and how to share them with students? And the research-informed benefits of using rubrics.
2. Assessment Rubrics by The University of Edinburgh, UK
In this resource different examples of holistic versus analytical rubrics are given with a particular focus on reflective assessments. Reflection pieces can be challenging to mark because of their emphasis on personal experiences. However, in this resource clear objective criteria are suggested that can facilitate the marking process.
3. Rubrics at the School of Psychology and Neuroscience by Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel, Courtney Taylor Browne Luka, & Rebecca Lai, University of Glasgow, UK
Concrete rubric templates for different assessments used in Psychology are provided in this resource. You will find rubrics for research reports (quantitative and qualitative), case studies, and essays. A self-assessment activity for students is linked for one of the research report rubrics. In addition, there are step-by-step instructions on how to use gen AI to co-create a rubric from scratch. In the final section of this resource there are instructions on how to implement rubrics into TurnItIn or Moodle.
