Assessment Rubrics in Education

Types of Rubrics

• Holistic Rubric: evaluates student performance by applying all criteria simultaneously, providing a single score based on overall judgment about the quality of student's work.
• Analytic Rubric: evaluates student's work by using each criterion separately, providing specific feedback about the student's performance or product along several dimensions.

General and Task-Specific Rubrics

• General Rubric: contains criteria that are general and can be applied across tasks.
• Task-Specific Rubric: contains criteria that are unique to a specific task.

Affective Domain in Learning

• Levels of Affective Domain: 1. Receive, 2. Respond, 3. Value, 4. Organize, 5. Characterize.

Affective Variables/Factors

• Attitude: a person's reaction, whether negative or positive, favorable or unfavorable toward an object, activity, person, or environment.
• Value: a person's or society's beliefs about good behavior and what things are important.
• Belief: a person's convictions or opinions which they hold to be true without evidence.
• Interest: a psychological state that draws a person's attention to an object, idea, or event.
• Motivation: an inner drive, impulse, emotion, or desire that moves one to a particular action.
• Self-Confidence: how a person feels about their abilities to accomplish a task or reach a goal.

Assessment Tools in Affective Learning

• Self-Report Questionnaires: respondent is asked to answer questions about themselves, their behavior, emotions, feelings, or views.

Portfolio Assessment

• A purposeful, on-going, dynamic, and collaborative process of gathering multiple indicators of students' growth and development in a course or program of study.
• Essential Elements:
  • Cover Letter: "About the author" and "What my portfolio shows about my progress as a learner".
  • Table of Contents with numbered pages.
  • Entries: both core (items students have to include) and optional (items of student's choice).
  • Dates on all entries to facilitate proof of growth over time.
  • Drafts of oral and written products and revised versions.
  • Reflections can appear at different stages in the learning process.

Types of Portfolios

• Working Portfolio: a collection of a student's day-to-day works that reflect their learning.
• Show Portfolio: a collection of a student's best work.
• Documentary Portfolio: a combination of a working and a show portfolio.

The Portfolio Development Process

• 1. Set Goals
• 2. Collect
• 3. Select
• 4. Organize
• 5. Reflect
• 6. Evaluate (Using Rubrics)
• 7. Confer/Exhibit

This quiz assesses your understanding of holistic and analytic rubrics, as well as the taxonomy of the affective domain in learning. Test your knowledge of educational assessment techniques!