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Assessment Design

Assessment Design

Resources and Support for Assessing Students work (VUW)
Programme and course design (VUW) 
Designing Assessments for a course (VUW)

Rubrics: Pedagogical and Practical Help

  • Creates a common framework and language for assessment​
  • Complex products or behaviours can be examined efficiently​
  • Well-trained reviewers apply the same criteria and standards
  • ​Criterion-referenced, rather than norm-referenced. (Raters ask, “Did the student meet the criteria for level 5 of the rubric?” rather than “How well did this student do compared to other students?”)​
  • Using rubrics can lead to substantive conversations​
  • Promotes shared expectations and grading practices
  • Feedback to students (looking back at what can be improved)​
  • Feedforward to students (clarifying disciplinary and professions’ standards/expectations; focusing learning effort)
Picture of example rubric from Dawson's book page 350
Example Rubric. Dawson, Phillip. (2017) Assessment rubrics: towards clearer and more replicable design, research and practice, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 42:3, 347-360, DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2015.1111294

Useful links for Assessment Design


Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning, Indiana University
Kay Sambell and Sally Brown: Covid-19 Assessment Collection  
Creating and Using Rubrics, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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