RUBRICS

RUBRIC Abbreviation
Reliability Usability Behavior Reflection Information and
Creativity.

Reliability – The consistency (quality/standard) of Score

Usability – Quality of users experience (the degree to which something is able)
Behavior – Performance in Assessment
Reflection – Addresses the topic (evaluation)
Information – Criteria used for assessing
Creativity – Important ideas
Rubrics - Meaning
Rubrics denotes a guide listing a set of rules or
specific criteria for scoring or grading student
assignments, projects and academic
performance.
RUBRIC -- Definition
A rubric is a type of scoring guide that assess
and articulates specific components and
expectations for an assignment.
Rubrics
• Rubrics denotes the criteria used by the teacher to assess
students learning achievement and their specifications
describing the different levels of performance.
• (e.g) When a teacher is grading a particular assignment of
a students on a scale 1 to 4, What component present in
the assignment grade 1,what else are present grade 2,
what are all to be present in the assignment is the highest
grade 4 will be indicated in the rubrics.
 Example of Marking Rubrics
Making Rubrics Excellent Good Average Poor
Comprehension Demonstrated Reflected most Showed practical Showed minimal
complete of the knowledge of knowledge of
knowledge of
concepts and knowledge or some points of concepts in the
principles in the concepts or the concept in content area.
content area. principles. the content area.
Comprehension Showed an Showed good Showed some Poor in
excellent understanding in understanding of interpreting the
understanding
in interpreting interpreting the the concepts in concepts in the
the concepts in concepts in the the content. content area.
the content. content.
Steps in Students Learning to create a Rubric

Seven steps in students

learning to create a Rubric
Steps in Rubric
•Teacher explains with illustrations what makes an assignment on a
topic and ask the students to reflect on them.
•Teacher takes a topic as an example and describes the elements of
good assignments and get feedback from students.
•Based on the feedback from students the teacher improves the
criteria (very good, good, satisfy, bad)of assessment.
•Grading the attributes/ criteria developed to form a rubrics.
(arranging the order)
•Evaluate some student assignment on the topic.
•Using the rubrics developed by the teacher, students assess their own
assignment on that topic.
•Students themselves develop a rubric for a topic and evaluate their
own and other student’s rubrics.
Importance of Rubric
• Rubric helps the teacher to assess student’s performance.
• To write rubrics, teachers need to focus on the criteria by
which learning will be assessed.
• It help the students to understand the important concepts
in the content area.
• It help students to reflect on their academic work.
• It help to assess the learning achievement of students in all
fields like music, dance, drama, painting, game etc.
ASSESSMENT TOOLS FOR AFFECTIVE DOMAIN

Three Learning Domains

• Cognitive Domain
• Affective Domain
• Psychomotor Domain
Cognitive Domain
• It is mainly concerned with acquiring
knowledge and putting into practical use.
• It is related with thinking and other mental
activities.
Affective Domain
• It is related with emotional development.
• Its aiming to cultivating interest, attitudes, values
and appreciations in the learner.
Psycho-motor domain
• It involves the acquisition of various physical
skills which involve neuro muscular co-
ordination.
Affective Domain and the tools used to
Assess Learning
Main stages of Affective Domain
• Receiving
• Responding
• Valuing
• Organisation
• Characterization
Receiving
• Awareness of the stimuli
• Willings to receive
• Show selected attention
Responding

•After perceiving the stimulus the

learner responds to it.
•This expressing one’s interest.
Valuing
• Perceiving a concept or worth or
commitment in behaviour towards it.
Organization
• The learner organizes the values into a system
and determines the inter relationships among
them.
Characterization
• After the values have been organized in
individual’s mind, they control his/her
behaviour
Tools
The tools used in the assessment are
•Attitude Scale
•Motivational Scale
•Interest Inventories.
Attitude Scale
Attitude can be defined as the way in
which a person views and evaluates
something or someone toward a certain
idea, object, person, or situation.
Attitude Scale
Attitude scales provide a quantitative
measurement of attitudes, opinions or
values by summarising numerical
scores.
Types of Attitude Scales
•Thurstone’s Equal Interval Scale
•Likert’s Summated Scale
Thurstone’s Equal Interval Scale
• This scale was developed by Robert Thurstone
• Thurstone scale is defined as a unidimensional
scale that is used to track respondent’s
behavior, attitude or feeling towards a subject.
Only two extreme attitudes yes or no.
• This scale consists of statements about a
particular issue or topic where each statement
has a numerical value that indicates the
respondents attitude towards the topic as
Likert’s Summated Scale

• Most widely used method to assess attitude.

• A Likert scale is a survey-based research technique
used to collect ratings for items related to a
common subject. Each item may be analyzed
separately
•  Likert scales are also called summative scales.
• Often the scale has three or five intervals namely
strongly Agree, (5) Agree,(4) Not sure, (3) Disagree,
(2)Strongly Disagree(1)
Advantages of Attitude Scale
• To find out the likes and dislikes of the students.
• To understand the peculiar behaviour of the
students.
• Measuring group attitude.
• To modify the behavior of the students.
• Understanding individual differences.
Limitations of Attitude Scale
• Information obtained through attitude scale
are not fully reliable.
• A person may not knowing his attitude.
• Five pointed are not at equal interval, they
have imaginary boundaries.
• Attitude scale trend the outlook of the people.
Motivation Scale
What is motivation?
Motivation is the process of
arousing, maintaining and
controlling interest in a goal
directed pattern of behaviour.
 Motivational Scale
The Motivation Assessment Scale
is a rating scale designed to help
identify the motivation behind a
target problem behavior.
Motivation behaviour
•MB is shaped by 3 factors.
•They are
•Level of Aspiration
•Level of Expectation
•Mental Satisfaction
Some Motivation Scale
•Miller’s Motivation Scale
•Measuring Tool for Student’s
Learning Motivation
Miller’s Motivation Scale
• The Miller Motivation Scale is a 160-item computer scored scale.
• It was developed to measure quickly and easily and display the
motivational profile of the client.
• It has eight subscales.
• Five subscales measure encouragement, self-fulfillment and social
interest.
• They are called Creative, Innovative, Productive, Cooperative,
and Power.
• Three subscales measure discouragement, self-defeat, and selfish
interest.
• They are labeled Attention Getting, Revenge, and Give-Up.
Measuring Tool for Student’s Learning
Motivation
• Motivation two types
• Extrinsic motivation
• Intrinsic motivation
• Separate tools for measuring these motivation
• 18 items expressing intrinsic and intrinsic motivation
• The tool consists of 5 components namely interest,
focus, self confidence, perseverance and hard work etc
Psychologist developed motivational
scales
•Smith’s Inventory – 81 items
•Maslach’s Inventory – 15 items
•Weinstein’s Inventory – 77 items
Measuring Interest
What is interest in attitude?
Interest is meant “any aim or object which stimulates
activity towards its attainment.”
Attitude is the state of consciousness within the
individual human being. “
It refers to certain regularities of an individual's
feelings, thoughts, and predispositions to act towards
some aspect of his environment.
Types of Interest
•General Interest
•Vocational Interest
•Educational Interest
Vocational Interest – 7 types
• Interest in Mechanics
• Interest in Business
• Interest in Science
• Interest in Aesthetics
• Interest in Social Work
• Interest in Clerical Work
• Interest in Outdoor Activities
Important Interest Inventories
Kuder Preference Record – 10 scales
1. Outdoor
2.Mechanical
3.Computational
4. Scientific
5. Persuasive
6. Artistic
7. Literary
8. Musical
Strong Vocational Interest Blank
• Developed by E.K. Strong in 1927 revised in 1951
• Separate form for men and women
• 47 vocations for men
• 28 Vocations for women
• Each inventory contain 400 test items
Strong Campbell Interest Inventory
• Developed by David P Campbell in 1974
• 325 items under 7 sections
• Occupations
• School Subjects
• Activities in day today life
• Amusement
• Day to day contact in various types of people
Remaining 2 given in the form of descriptive statements
Thurstone’s Occupational Interest
• Developed by Thurstone
• Occupations given in pairs
• Large number of pairs are developed for different occupations
• 10 interest groups are reperesented
• Physical Science
• Biological Science
• Computational
• Business
• Executive
• Persuasive
Lee – Thorpe Occupation Interest
• Developed bye LEE and THORPE
• 240 items
• Test items arranged under 6 areas
• Social and Personal
• Related to Nature
• Mechanical
• Economy
• Arts
• Science