TFA recruits are required to complete rubrics and portfolios to acquire state teaching certification, but received little help completing them.
The completed observation rubric was analyzed using a paired t-test.
Oral Case Presentation Grading Rubric (Completed by course directors).
In addition to audio-recording the above tasks, both investigators completed a detailed scoring rubric that permitted efficient specification of card sort groupings as well as participant explanations for their groupings (the rubric is available from the senior author upon request).
For the complete coding rubric, see the Thinking Like a Biologist website (www.biodqc.org) Diagnosis Guides in Downloads.
ILink proposes word alignments step-by-step and then the annotator accepts or rejects the proposals until all possible alignments in a rubric pair have been completed.
Both authors independently scored the completed test scripts, guided by a grading rubric.
To calculate AGREE II instrument scores requires two or more testers (i.e., AGREE cannot be completed by only one tester), and a scoring rubric is provided to weight domain scores, depending on how many testers participate [ 15].
For all assessments, each rater completed training in the use of the BioTAP rubric, which included examination of samples of students' writings that illustrated inadequate, adequate, and masterful levels of all nine dimensions being assessed.
Each rater completed >8 h training in the use of the BioTAP rubric.
