The following is a Sample Rubric for training faculty in rubric construction, created with faculty at TVCA Assessment Seminar, March 1, 2003.  [Rubric demonstration led by Nick Bekas, Penny Villegas, Jane Renfroe, Celine Kavalec-Miller, Linda Anthon.]

 

Criteria	Low	Medium	High
Mechanics	Mechanics impede understanding	Mechanical errors are present but do not interfere with meaning more than occasionally	Very few mechanical errors—minimal?
Supporting detail	Simplistic and few, if any, supporting detail	Adequate detail, but not well developed or not balanced	Robust and balanced detail
Topic sentence and Organization	No clear topic sentence No focus Random organizational style	Topic sentence but minimal coherence and logic	Logical organization, strong topic sentence, clear sense of purpose
Concept and content	Empty of content and understanding (BS)	Adequate demonstration of content and understanding	Sophisticated understanding of concept and content

 

To see the rubrics produced in the workshops by the various teams, click on the team:

Spanish;    Speech;   English for Academic Purposes (EAP);  Reading

 

Faculty read and practiced a holistic scoring of 4 student essays on the following prompt, using the rubric constructed by the facilitators.

 

Prompt: Describe a television commercial you have seen, and explain how it appeals to three impelling psychological drives.

 

Notes from discussion with audience of faculty:

Mechanics

Complete whole sentences

Grammatically correct

 

Topic sentence for a paragraph (implied or explicit?)

 

Strong organization—fluid, transitions, point 1, point 2

 

Support, level of detail and logic of support

 

Specific use of impelling psychological drives—Concept is addressed--content