Research Guides: MCC Center for Teaching & Learning: Assessment

Rubrics

Single Point Rubrics
The practice of using single point rubrics is slowly but surely catching on. The simplicity of these rubrics — with just a single column of criteria, rather than a full menu of performance levels — offers a whole host of benefits:
Speed Up Grading with Rubric Codes
Do you have a mountain of student writing to grade? A pile of extended responses that have been sitting in your passenger seat for a week? Do you wish you had more time to give students better feedback?
How to Turn Rubric Scores into Grades

Quick and Easy Formative Assessments
This tool gives a few ideas on assessment ideas that you can use to monitor student learning
Dipsticks: Efficient Ways to Check for Understanding
Edutopia article: Through alternative formative assessment, teachers can check for student understanding without falling back on the tedious or intimidating pop quiz.

In 1956, Benjamin Bloom with collaborators Max Englehart, Edward Furst, Walter Hill, and David Krathwohl published a framework for categorizing educational goals: Taxonomy of Educational Objectives.

Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to Write Effective Learning Objectives
This great resource gives connections between Blooms Taxonomy and writing course objectives and assignments.