The last couple of chapters address rubric-related topics, such as converting rubrics points into letter grades and assessing educational technology.
For the Results section, each submission was evaluated based on how well it addressed these rubric questions: 1) Have you described the results you obtained and compared them to the results obtained with the original model?
As mentioned earlier, this can be addressed if rubrics are created collaboratively by both teacher and students.
These issues are addressed under the rubric of response modification factor.
As Kendall Walton (2006) notes, the questions addressed under the rubric of imaginative resistance turn out to be a 'tangled nest of importantly distinct but easily confused puzzles'.
Concepts evaluated by the rubric addressed learning outcomes described above and were the focus of the majority of instructional materials and class discussions.
BioTAP's rubric addresses 13 distinct dimensions of students' writing, including writing skills, scientific reasoning, and accuracy and appropriateness of research.
Recent publications (McGee and Keller, 2007; Villarejo et al., 2008) have begun to tease out possible pre-M.D. versus pre-Ph.D. indicators, and we will consider adding some kind of rubric addressing these metrics to the recommendation letter that is currently part of the application.
McConnell and colleagues recently developed a rubric to address this weakness, which also enabled them to achieve high interrater reliability (Budd et al., 2013).
For the Model Description section, each submission was evaluated based on how well it addressed the following three rubric questions: 1) Have you provided a brief overview of the key state variables, parameters, and inputs to the model?
For the Introduction section, each submission was evaluated based on how well it addressed the following three rubric questions: 1) Have you explained the significance of the problem? 2) Have you stated the hypothesis that the model will test?
