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 Thesis
 Capstone project
 Sessional
 Industrial Training

 The word derives from the Latin: rubrica, meaning red chalk.
 “An authoritative rules” and “a guide listing specific criteria for grading or scoring academic
papers, projects, or tests”.
 A simplified way to grade a complicated assignment .
 Rubrics are not a form of assessment, but are the
criteria for making an assessment.
 It articulates gradations of quality for each criterion, holistically (from excellent to poor) and numerically
(5,4,3,2,1,0).
 As it is provided ahead of time, rubrics allow for transparency, consistency and increased objectivity.

• Rubrics:
– Objectify assessment
– Are a mechanism for assessing work
– Guide the learner
– Guide the assessor
– Help the learners to prioritize the tasks
– Are transparent

• Rubrics can be used for assessing:
– Thesis
– Lab Reports
– Industrial Attachment/Visit
– Oral presentations
– Group Work
– Capstone Project

Criteria/
Scale
Organizati on and
Learning need
Learner
Characteri stics
Summary
SAMPLE OF RUBRICS
Poor Moderate
Does not identify organization or learning need
0
Does not summarizes the learners characteristi cs
0
Identify the organization but does not summarizes the learning need
2
Summarizes some but not all of the relevant learners characteristics
6
Excellent
Identifies the organization and thoroughly summarizes the learning need
4
Summarizes all relevant learner characteristics
12
Mar ks
/4
/12

QUESTION TO ASK WHEN
DESIGNING A RUBRIC
• What do I want to assess with this assessment?
• Do I provide enough details for the students?
• Will the scale encourage the students to improve their performance?
• Are the points distributed properly?
• Is it clear how to move from one level in the scale up to the next?

PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

o Needs Improvement...Satisfactory...Good...Exemplary
o
Beginning...Developing...Accomplished...Exemplary
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Needs work...Good...Excellent
o
Novice...Apprentice...Proficient...Distinguished
o
Numeric scale ranging from 1 to 5, for example

TYPES OF RUBRICS
Rubrics
Analytic
Rubric
Holistic
Rubric

• Holistic :
– Looks at the product or performance as a whole
• Analytic
– Breaks the performance or product into criteria
( Dimensions)

BENEFITS FOR STUDENTS
• Provide students with a great deal of feedback
• Allow the students to clearly
understand expectations, thus why they did or did not do well.
• Engage students’ critical thinking.
• Provide consistency, objectivity and
clarity to assessment.

BENEFITS FOR TEACHERS
• Save time for instructor.
• Remove the guessing game of assessment.
• Provide consistency, objectivity and clarity to assessment.
• Provide a lens with which a professor can refine and improve his or her own teaching.

BENEFITS FOR PARENTS
• Parents can feel more confident and
comfortable helping students with homework because they know exactly what is expected of their child .

Q&A

REMARKS BY COMMANDANT
Maj Gen Md Abul Khair, ndc, PEng