A Step-by-Step Guide for Creating Rubrics with Embedded Feedback Banks
My Why: Marking has always been a source of guilt for me: Guilt that I'm not returning students' projects quickly enough; guilt that I'm not providing those same students with the feedback they deserve. A few years back, I adopted the single column rubric as the base for my assessment practice. I appreciated how single column rubrics afforded me lots of room to jot down meaningful feedback, the kind of feedback my students deserved. I didn't appreciate how time consuming that meaningful feedback was to generate. Since then, I've spent years- largely in vain- trying to come up with efficiencies to quicken my marking. Fast forward to my newest creation: the single column rubric featuring embedded feedback banks. With these rubrics, I can offer students much more feedback in much less time. Descriptive feedback with a couple clicks of the mouse. For a quick peek at the rubric check out this video: Demonstration of Rubric Here is the step-by-step process I took to crea