Student perspectives on rubric-referenced assessment

Authors

Heidi Andrade
Ying Du

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7275/g367-ye94

Abstract

This study suggests that students use rubrics to support their own learning and academic..performance. In focus groups, fourteen undergraduate students discussed the ways in which..they used rubrics to plan an approach to an assignment, check their work, and guide or reflect..on feedback from others. The students said that using rubrics helped them focus their efforts,..produce work of higher quality, earn a better grade, and feel less anxious about an..assignment. Their comments also revealed that most of the students tend not to read a rubric..in its entirety, and that some may perceive of a rubric as a tool for satisfying a particular..teacher’s demands rather than as a representation of the criteria and standards of a discipline. Accessed 32,451 times on https://pareonline.net from April 20, 2005 to December 31, 2019. For downloads from January 1, 2020 forward, please click on the PlumX Metrics link to the right.

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Recommended Citation

Andrade, Heidi and Du, Ying (2019) "Student perspectives on rubric-referenced assessment," Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation: Vol. 10, Article 3.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7275/g367-ye94
Available at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/pare/vol10/iss1/3