TEL@SHEF STEP-BY-STEP The University of Sheffield Supporting Learning through Technology Page 1 www.sheffield.ac.uk/cics/tel [email protected]Rubrics and Grading Forms: Improving the quality of assessment Preparation: Access to a course in MOLE (My Online Learning Environment) An assignment already set up. In order to access your Turnitin account, you will need to have an assignment set up in a course area in MOLE. (This does not need to be a real one – you can set one up as hidden, simply to allow you to access your Turnitin area. See sheet on ‘Setting up an Assignment’ to see how to do this.) Time needed: 20mins-40mins Why use Rubrics and Grading forms? Rubrics and Grading forms, more commonly known as marking or assessment criteria are used to help assess how well a student has performed in a submitted piece of work across a range of competencies. They are often used to assist in assigning a mark to that work. For more information on using assessment criteria, please refer to LeTS (Learning and Teaching Services) toolkit: http://www.shef.ac.uk/lets/toolkit/f-a/assessment In Turnitin, you can create your own assessment forms in an electronic format, which can then be utilised in the same manner as traditional paper-based assessment criteria. The most immediate benefits of using Turnitin Rubrics and Grading forms are: You can make the criteria available to students, which helps them to understand what is expected from them and why they have received the grade they have on a piece of work Once created, you can attach a Turnitin Rubric or Grading Form to any assignment You can share Rubrics and Grading Forms with colleagues Once a Rubric or Grading Form has been set up and attached to an assignment, it allows for quicker marking You can tailor Rubrics and Grading Forms quickly and easily to different assignments. Terminology: Turnitin uses American terminology, which may not be clear to new users.
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TEL@SHEF STEP-BY-STEP
The University of Sheffield Supporting Learning through Technology
2. Custom Rubric: This Rubric is denoted by a ‘Pencil’ symbol. This type of Rubric allows you to enter any numerical and text value into the Rubric cells themselves. This allows for the most control over scoring or grading. When attached to an
assignment, this Rubric will calculate and input the overall grade within GradeMark, based on your scale and cell selections.
In the example below, Criterion 1 is the most important feature of the assignment and can be worth 50% of the marks for top students, whilst criterion 2 is worth 30% and Criterion 3 worth just 20%. The percentages actually earned by the students depend on the quality of their work under that criterion.
In this example here, each criterion is worth 25% of
the whole assignment. Scoring an A in a certain
criterion would give the student the full 25%, whilst
scoring a D would only give a student 10%. Anything
below a D would not be scored.
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T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f S h e f f i e l d
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3. Qualitative Rubric: This Rubric is selected by choosing the ‘0’ symbol at the base of the Rubric. This type of Rubric is for entering text, describing what each grade looks like, without awarding a grade for it. As such, it is used as a guide for marking and does not interact with the grading mechanism in Turnitin GradeMark. The marker can still award a grade, but it is not done automatically through the Rubric.
Grading Forms: Whilst rubrics provide a highly-structured and comprehensive set of standards by which to evaluate student work, they can be time-consuming if all you really want to do is evaluate student work quickly, based on a set of predefined criteria or learning goals.
Turnitin’s new Grading Forms are simple rubrics that allow an instructor to give free-form feedback and scores for students spread across a list of criteria.
This would be known in UK English as a ‘Feedback
form’.
Note that Grading forms can be used without a ‘paper assignment’ being submitted, so they can be used to assess work such as a musical performance.
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T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f S h e f f i e l d
TEL@SHEF STEP-BY-STEP
The University of Sheffield Supporting Learning through Technology