Assessment for learning by design: Rubrics and assessment Part 2 A conversation starter What happens when it goes wrong. A personal story

What I want to do? Show you a bog standard approach Identify the difficulties / confusion through examples Introduce a better idea Leave here with something solid

Step 1: of writing rubrics What is the BIG idea of your assessment piece? Think..1 minute…..crystal clarity Explain to the person next to you Re think and write it down……..5 mins

What a rubric needs to do…. Separate standards of work Communicate standards of work

What a rubric should be…. Powerful teaching and learning tool that focuses students in on what is REALLY important If you wrote a rubric well you could give it to students INSTEAD of the assessment and ask them what the assessment would be and what was important Attempt to create a shared understanding Higher achieving students and Less awkward conversations …“why did I get this?”

Education literature needs you to be critical Everything is best practice but they use different language and nothing seems consistent Bog standard example

Geoff Scott OLT fellowship Where does you course fit in the program? Alignment but that is not enough Quality assurance needs to be seen in the rubric

What does this mean? Essay as an example CriteriaRather than Demonstrate an awareness of ethical, health and safety, and regulatory issues appropriate to the laboratory(ies) in which they have completed their clinical practice Introduction Discuss the role of information storage, retrieval and processing in laboratory operations Analysis..

Step 2: what are the objectives that relate to your assessment? ….do these ‘fit with your “big” purpose Or is there a problem?

Step 3: What type of rubric? Analytic or Holistic: Examples: go through Reflective, holistic, Flinders rubric Example, I am confused rubric university approved rubric Grading…points Purpose Does it make sense ?

Step 4: P1..what is it …..look to that verb, All yours…………………..

Alignment: Alignment: What are the course objectives that relate to this assessment ? 3 parts verb, object and standard Or Verb …noun.. Are your course objectives the right objectives? Is there an agreement about what the learning objectives mean? Is there an agreement about what the learning objectives mean? Biggs, J. & Tang, C. (3rd Ed) (2007). Teaching for Quality Learning at University. Maidenhead: Open University Press/McGraw Hill. Does your big idea connect with these learning objectives?

Blooms vs Anderson’s cognitive taxonomies

These don’t work Where an assessment based on group work exceeds 30% of the total marks available for a course, individual contributions will also be assessed Understand and appreciate: not verbs for objectives Why not, because you can’t see appreciation, you can’t see understanding Must be observable verbs

Alignment Alignment Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)‏ expressed as verbs students have to enact expressed as verbs students have to enact Think about concrete and visible starting point starting point 3 parts verb, object and standard Are these still the ‘right’ objectives? Is there an agreement about what the ILOs mean? Is there an agreement about what the ILOs mean? What is competence for this group of students? Or What is a P1? Each course objective MUST be assessed…It cannot be claimed without evidence Biggs, J. & Tang, C. (3rd Ed) (2007). Teaching for Quality Learning at University. Maidenhead: Open University Press/McGraw Hill. Assessment Tasks Format: How the verbs are to be demonstrated: relevance and context Criteria: How you will know: measurement and learning

Alignment Alignment Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)‏ expressed as verbs students have to enact expressed as verbs students have to enact starting point starting point 3 parts verb, object and standard Are these still the ‘right’ objectives? Is there an agreement about what the ILOs mean? Is there an agreement about what the ILOs mean? What is competence for this group of students? Or What is a P1? Biggs, J. & Tang, C. (3rd Ed) (2007). Teaching for Quality Learning at University. Maidenhead: Open University Press/McGraw Hill. Assessment Tasks Format: How the verbs are to be demonstrated: relevance and context Criteria: How you will know: measurement and learning Teaching / Learning Activities Activities Designed to support the assessment Large class activities Small class activities Teacher-managedPeer-managedSelf-managedClassroom-based Outside classroom as best suits context