Designing Grading Rubrics

Creating a grading rubric is one strategy for making criteria and standards clearer to both faculty and students in order to achieve better student work.  Regular use of grading rubrics can also help instructors ask better (and easier to grade) questions, speed up the grading process and help students understand the expectations for each assignment.  This interactive workshop is designed to motivate you to believe that rubrics can help both you and your students, teach you the components of grading rubrics, and assist you with constructing your own rubrics. 

Counts towards:

• (S) Striving for Excellence
• (A) Advanced Teaching Scholar

At the end of this workshop participants will be able to:

• Write an effective rubric for one assignment/question.
  
• Describe the benefits of rubric use.
  
• Decide whether or not to release a rubric to students in advance
• Discern which type of rubric is appropriate for a specific need
• Design rubrics for their own courses

Participants should arrive with an assignment or question for which they would like to create a rubric.

Introduction to rubrics : an assessment tool to save grading time, convey effective feedback, and promote student learning
Stevens, Dannelle D.
LB 3063 .S74 2005

Creating and using rubrics in today’s classrooms : a practical guide
Glickman-Bond, Jane.
LB 3063 .S74 2005

• Understanding Rubrics - by Heidi Goodrich Andrade
• The Case for Authentic Assessment - by Grant Wiggins
• Rubrics in the Classroom - Iowa AEA 267
• Creating Rubrics - TeacherVision
• Online rubric creators: Rubistar | Rubric Machine | 2learn