7.5: Rubrics

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Scoring rubrics

Scoring rubrics can be holistic or analytic. In holistic scoring rubrics, general descriptions of performance are made and a single overall score is obtained.

Analytic rubrics provide descriptions of levels of student performance on a variety of characteristics. For example, six characteristics used for assessing writing developed by the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory (NWREL) are:

ideas and content
organization
voice
word choice
sentence fluency
conventions

Holistic rubrics can be developed more quickly than analytic rubrics. They are also faster to use as there is only one dimension to examine. However, they do not provide students specific feedback as the analytic rubric does. This means they are less useful for assessment for learning. An important use of rubrics is to use them as teaching tools and provide them to students before the assessment so they know what knowledge and skills are expected.

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Ebook

Seifert, K. and Sutton, R. (2009). Educational Psychology. Saylor Foundation. (Chapter 11) Retrieved from open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=153 (CC BY)