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Not Your Average Rubric: Designing Rubrics that Assess Teaching and Learning

7:30am - 9:00am   Coffee & Registration

9:00am - 9:15am   Introduction

9;15am - 9:30am   Nuts and Bolts of Rubrics
Speaker: Heather Richards, Academic Instructional Designer, Nichols College

Provide an overview of the various types of rubrics and main research on development, assessment, and value for faculty and students.

9:30am - 10:15am   Building and Using Rubrics for Assessment and Learning
Speakers: 
Christine Baumgarthuber, Instructional Designer, Brown University (Remote presenter)
Dr. Andrew Smith, Professor of Sports Management and History, Nichols College

Detail the functionality rubrics to provide for assessment, curriculum, and teaching.

10:15am - 10:30am   Break

10:30am - 11:30am   Activity: Dissecting Rubrics and Assessments
Facilitators:  Melissa Kane, Instructional Designer, Brown University
Rebecca Taub, Instructional Designer, Brown University

In small groups, we will study and assess examples of assessments and rubrics. 

11:30am - 12:30pm   Lunch

12:30pm - 1:00pm   Whiteboarding: Open Forum
Speakers: 
Heather Richards, Academic Instructional Designer, Nichols College
Rebecca Taub, Instructional Designer, Brown University

In small groups, we will study and assess examples of assessments and rubrics. 

1:00pm - 2 :00pm   Activity: Rubric Design Workshop
Facilitators:   Melissa Kane, Instructional Designer, Brown University
Rebecca Taub, Instructional Designer, Brown University

We will break out into groups to design a rubric for a specific assessment activity. We encourage you to bring in an assignment or rubric to the workshop. 

2:00pm - 2:30pm   Putting Your Rubric in the LMS 
Speakers: 
Heather Richards, Academic Instructional Designer, Nichols College
Rebecca Taub. Instructional Designer, Brown University

After having spent the morning on the components encompassing the rubric and assessing language for creating an optimal rubric, we will take criteria and descriptions and building them out within the LMS.

2:30pm - 3:00pm   Wrap-up

3:00pm   End

 

 

 

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