What is a Rubric? — Transcript

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1. 0:01hi everyone welcome back to the
2. 0:03international's guide to academic
3. 0:05success
4. 0:07today we are going to be answering the
5. 0:08questions what is a rubric and what do i
6. 0:12do with it
7. 0:14now some of you might have seen the word
8. 0:15rubric before some of you might know
9. 0:17what it is but for those of you who are
10. 0:19not familiar with it
11. 0:21a rubric
12. 0:23is
13. 0:24basically a guide that a teacher gives
14. 0:27you
15. 0:28or that they use for themselves
16. 0:30to evaluate your assignment so i'm going
17. 0:34to show you three different rubrics that
18. 0:36i've had in the past and i'll show you
19. 0:38kind of what they're useful for and how
20. 0:41you can understand these different types
21. 0:43of rubrics let's get started
22. 0:46okay so this rubric
23. 0:49was for discussion boards i think all of
24. 0:51you have had discussion boards in your
25. 0:53different classes here at dbu
26. 0:55not all professors give a rubric for a
27. 0:58discussion board but this professor did
28. 1:00and so what we see here is a grid we
29. 1:04have
30. 1:05descriptions at the top and then we have
31. 1:08different categories
32. 1:09along the side as you can see so the
33. 1:12criteria these are the different
34. 1:14categories you have content that is what
35. 1:17you say
36. 1:18writing style how you say it
37. 1:21research
38. 1:22whether you've used outside research
39. 1:24response this is in a discussion board
40. 1:27when you have to answer somebody else's
41. 1:29post and timeliness so these are the
42. 1:32areas that are important to this
43. 1:34professor
44. 1:35most professors make their own rubrics
45. 1:37and all of them are a little bit
46. 1:38different so over here
47. 1:41we can see the point values you have
48. 1:44needs improvement 8 to 11 points
49. 1:46good is 12 to 16 points
50. 1:49excellent is 17 to 20 points so the
51. 1:53maximum is 20 points and the lowest you
52. 1:55can get is eight
53. 1:58so here for example
54. 2:00for the content to be considered good
55. 2:03it would have to fit this description
56. 2:05analyzed issues but support discussion
57. 2:08was weak okay so if you wanted the
58. 2:10content to be excellent then it would
59. 2:12have to be
60. 2:14described by this analyzed issues with
61. 2:16insight and clearly supported position
62. 2:19okay so the same thing with writing
63. 2:21style
64. 2:22for it to be excellent it would have to
65. 2:24be basically error free so no mistakes
66. 2:28for it to be considered good
67. 2:30some minor errors in spelling or grammar
68. 2:33and if there are more than five errors
69. 2:36in spelling or grammar and the meaning
70. 2:38is not clear then she would give this
71. 2:40eight or eleven points because it needs
72. 2:43improvement
73. 2:44okay so we could go down through all the
74. 2:46different categories and it goes the
75. 2:47same way this professor included being
76. 2:50on time in her rubric not all professors
77. 2:53do but this one did so we have if the
78. 2:56discussion occurred over three or more
79. 2:58days so she wants you to post and then
80. 2:59wait a few days and then answer somebody
81. 3:01else's that would be excellent if it
82. 3:04occurred over a two-day period
83. 3:06that's like if you posted one day and
84. 3:08then answered somebody's post the next
85. 3:10day she considered that good
86. 3:13and then if you did it all at once that
87. 3:15was considered
88. 3:16needing improvement so she wanted you to
89. 3:18spread it out
90. 3:19so this is one type of rubric now let's
91. 3:22look at another one
92. 3:24okay this rubric is much bigger and more
93. 3:27complicated than the other one we looked
94. 3:30at and that's because this is a rubric
95. 3:32for a research paper not a discussion
96. 3:34board so a discussion board is a
97. 3:36relatively small assignment
98. 3:39but a research paper takes more work and
99. 3:41it's worth more points
100. 3:43so you'll notice that this professor
101. 3:46lined up his point values
102. 3:48the opposite way from the other
103. 3:49professor so the other professor had the
104. 3:52good ones on the right and the bad ones
105. 3:54on the left this professor has your a's
106. 3:56so 90 to 100 on the left and your f's 0
107. 4:00to 59 points
108. 4:02on the right so keep that in mind
109. 4:04he also organized it into categories so
110. 4:07we have research
111. 4:09organization
112. 4:11writing
113. 4:12appearance and overall impression
114. 4:16so for each of these categories he gives
115. 4:18a lot of different descriptions
116. 4:20so under the research category
117. 4:23we have
118. 4:24questions related to sources so no
119. 4:26sources
120. 4:28not relevant
121. 4:30maybe less than required
122. 4:32exactly what's required and more than
123. 4:34required so to get full marks you
124. 4:37actually have to use
125. 4:38more sources than are required
126. 4:41then
127. 4:41documentation so citing sources
128. 4:44so we could keep on going
129. 4:46and see
130. 4:48i'm going to scroll down to
131. 4:50appearance
132. 4:51because not every rubric includes
133. 4:54appearance
134. 4:55this professor had guidelines for the
135. 4:57appearance so he rated you on whether
136. 4:59you followed the guidelines or not
137. 5:01follow them carefully pretty well
138. 5:03need to follow them better
139. 5:05almost did not and did not follow the
140. 5:07guidelines at all
141. 5:09so these are the different categories
142. 5:11that a professor can include on their
143. 5:13rubric
144. 5:14now let me show you one more
145. 5:18now this rubric looks a little bit
146. 5:19different from the others this is also
147. 5:22for a big paper this was for my
148. 5:24developing a christian mind class
149. 5:27and in this rubric instead of laying
150. 5:29them all out in a grid the professor
151. 5:32just assigns each category a point value
152. 5:35and then just tells you kind of that
153. 5:38good level so instead of describing what
154. 5:40good looks like and what bad looks like
155. 5:43she just described this is what good
156. 5:45looks like
157. 5:46and if you do this you get 20 points and
158. 5:49if you do this part way then you get
159. 5:51less so here we have
160. 5:53the transcript which was part of the
161. 5:55assignment paper mechanics so that's
162. 5:57grammar and spelling and organization
163. 6:01then you have content so this professor
164. 6:03assigned most of the points to content
165. 6:06and so she cared about what you said
166. 6:09what kind of things you talked about in
167. 6:10the paper
168. 6:12and each of these different areas
169. 6:15that you were supposed to talk about in
170. 6:16the paper were worth 20 points
171. 6:23so that was a quick look at what a
172. 6:25rubric is and what to do with it
173. 6:27and the answer is that it's a list of
174. 6:30requirements and it's a grading scale
175. 6:32that a professor will give you to help
176. 6:34you complete your assignment better
177. 6:37your professor will use that rubric to
178. 6:39grade your paper
179. 6:40but it's also a really good idea
180. 6:42to look at the rubric yourself and grade
181. 6:45your own paper before you turn it in so
182. 6:47you make sure that you hit all of those
183. 6:50different categories that are important
184. 6:52to your professor
185. 6:53as always if you need help understanding
186. 6:56a rubric or completing any of your
187. 6:58assignments please do reach out to the
188. 7:00international tutoring team and we would
189. 7:02be so happy to help you