Content Based Rubrics - Chelseann Christopher: https://osf.io/yutnw/The included artifact is an example of a content based rubric that was created to align to a paper assignment for an early childhood education class. Content based rubrics provide many benefits for both educators and students. Students are able to easily glean the expectations for their work when using this type of rubric, thus lowering their anxiety and increasing the likelihood that assignments will be completed to the appropriate expectations of higher education. Additionally, students are able to easily discern areas of improvement once an assignment has been graded, thus allowing for more specific feedback that does not require the explicit commentary of the educator. Content based rubrics allow educators to objectively evaluate the content of student work, ensuring that students are receiving equitable and fair grading practices. By aligning these rubrics closely to syllabi assignment guidelines, educators are able to ensure student success by eliminating the stress of open ended prompts and providing scaffolded support to guide learning outcomes and products. These rubrics afford less intensive grading time, as they can be embedded in Blackboard and focus on the content of the work, not the quality of the writing. All disciplines, modalities, and levels would benefit from this session. Attendees will be able to view an example of this type of rubric, as well as the original syllabi description, and Blackboard embedded example so that they are able to recreate this for their own classes.
