To facilitate the process of categorizing classroom observations into the 10 COPUS profiles, we have constructed a rubric that summarizes several defining code cutoffs.
Additional topics include: general ways to construct a rubric, grading with rubrics, and some discipline-specific rubrics, such as how to construct a rubric for grading laboratory reports.
Define the goal and purpose of the task that is being evaluated - Before constructing a rubric, instructors should review their learning outcomes associated with a given assignment.
With this goal in mind, I decided to bring the project of constructing the rubric into the classroom by inviting my students to collaborate with me on writing this important document.
Finally, we have constructed a simple rubric that can be used to categorize any class period into one of the COPUS profiles described here.
Time spent constructing grading rubrics while developing assignments benefits all parties involved with the course: students, teaching assistants and instructors alike.
The rubric was constructed to follow a set of examiner questions that related to each attribute of CR.
The practical implications are related to summarization task design, construct definition and rubric development in particular.
Where meta-analysis was not possible, synthesis took a narrative approach using techniques described by Popay and colleagues, namely: tabulation, textual descriptions, grouping and clustering, transformation of data to construct a common rubric, vote counting, and translation of data through thematic and content analysis [ 34- 36].
The open-ended question (i.e., question 6) required a scoring rubric that was constructed by one author (T.C ., who read all responses and created initial scoring categories.
