“Make it and Take it:”  Rubrics for Graduate Outcomes Assessment

Spring 2007

Sponsored by the CHFA SOA Committee

Facilitator:  Martie Reineke

Goals: 

 

•        Review graduate SOA process

•        Learn how faculty are using rubrics to facilitate improvements in graduate learning. 

•        Examine rubrics used in graduate programs at other universities.

•        Construct one or more rubrics for use in assessing and enhancing the quality of student work in graduate programs at UNI.

 

 

Supporting Resources (click on each item for file):

 

1)     Click here for :  PowerPoint presentation on Graduate Outcomes Assessment

 

·        Rubrics Glossary

·        Sample template:  holistic and analytic rubrics

·        Enhancing the Reliability of Rubrics

 

 

2)     “Five Stages to Making a Rubric – For MA programs:”  This step-by-step guide will enable you to move through the rubric-making process.

 

 

3)     Handout for assistance with selecting the vocabulary of your goals and outcomes:

 

·         “What do we mean when we ask that students “know the content?” (with verb chart)

·         “Key Characteristics of Student Assignments”

 

 

4)     Sample rubrics from graduate programs:

 

a)  oral presentation

b)  graduate thesis and oral presentation  from James Madison University

c)   comprehensive exam  (history, University of Kansas)

d)  comprehensive exam and thesis (Western Michigan University - history)

e)  comprehensive exam (English - Cal State Fullerton)

f)   multi-rubric thesis (Cal State San Marcos - for chapters, literature review, etc.)

g)  peer assessment rubric for thesis proposals (Cal State Long Beach)