Dr. Sara Butler, Professor, Department of Art
(ACT I, Spring, 2005)
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Dr.
Butler created a rubric for assessing critical thinking
for a take-home essay final exam question in her
ART 189, History of Western Dress, course.
She began by developing learning goals for the question,
then developed her own rubric to assess these learning
goals. She found that the process was useful
in that it forced her to think about the learning
outcomes for a question she been using for some
time, focused her grading on the learning outcomes,
and made grading more consistent across students.
On the other hand, she felt that the rubric was
quite time-consuming to develop and that grading
took her longer than previously. She discovered
that there was mismatch between the wording of the
question and the learning goals and so will refine
the question for future use. |
Assignment
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Assignment
Rubric
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