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Criteria-based assessment

Criteria-based assessment involves using scoring guides – often referred to as rubrics – that are utilized to measure a student’s learning outcome. Enabling teachers to divide standardized learning objectives into smaller parts, the rubric, or scoring guide, is used to evaluate a student's learning on the basis of a range of criteria, not just a single numeric score. If the assessment rubric is presented to the students before they start working on assignments, they are aware of the criteria by which their work will be assessed and can reflect as they go.

In itslearning, a teacher's own assessment criteria, the rubrics, can be added to learning objectives that have been imported to, or created in, a course. This is possible from the learning objectives page or when one is editing an assignment that has learning objectives connected to it.

The learning objectives are then connected to assignments or custom activities. When students are working with an assignment, they can see the assessment criteria, and during marking the teacher selects the assessment criterion that fits the submitted assignment with a single click of the mouse.

Examples of rubrics

The formats of assessment rubrics may vary from teacher to teacher but can be divided into the following main types:

ClosedGeneral rubrics
ClosedTask-specific rubrics
ClosedHolistic rubrics
ClosedAnalytic rubrics

Getting started with criteria-based assessment

To use criteria-based assessment in a course, you need to follow these steps:

  1. Add learning objectives to the course, either through the repository or by creating your own objectives
  2. Set up achievement levels for this course
  3. Add assessment criteria associated with learning objectives
  4. Connect learning objectives to an assignment

How-tos

ClosedAdding learning objectives to a course
ClosedSetting up achievement levels
ClosedAdding assessment criteria
ClosedConnecting learning objectives to assignments
ClosedAssessing assignments for which assessment rubrics are applied