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How Can Rubrics Make Grading Easier and Faster?

Rubrics help you develop a better grading system, one that delivers fair results, helps students learn, and makes effective use of your time. In this program, you will get examples of the three basic formats for rubrics and explore seven key recommendations developed to help you transform the grading process.

Person grades paper with see-through rubric placed over the hands grading

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How Can Rubrics Make Grading Easier and Faster?

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Sometimes it seems like the most important things don’t come with directions.

But there’s good news when it comes to grading student assignments. You get to design your own rules and they can save you time.

Not only that, using your own rules, or rubrics, will help you do a better job.

If there’s one thing faculty and students have in common, it’s a desire for better grades.

Learn a step-by-step approach to a better grading process from the presenter in How Can Rubrics Make Grading Easier and Faster?

Learning Goals

In less time than you might spend handling one students complaint about a grade, the presenter shows you practical ways rubrics can improve your process of scoring and grading student assignments. After viewing this session, you will be able to:

  • Design and use rubrics to meet your needs
  • Identify practices to control the number of student assignments you grade
  • Use student participation to improve the grading process

You’ll get examples of the three basic formats for rubrics and explore seven key recommendations developed to help you transform the grading process

You’ll see how using rubrics can help you give better feedback in less time

Take advantage of this great opportunity to design your own directions and streamline your teaching

Topics Covered

Rubrics are what you make them. After viewing in How Can Rubrics Make Grading Easier and Faster?, you’ll know how you can use rubrics to give you and your students what you always wanted-better grades.

Or more accurately, a better grading system, one that delivers fair results, helps students learn, and makes effective use of your time.

In this grading and feedback seminar, explore how to:

  • Determine whether you’re spending too much time on grading
  • Use different assignment types to reduce grading volume
  • Use self-checklists and peer pre-review to improve student learning and grading
  • Provide feedback students will use
  • Formulate an overall grade, based on a rubric score
  • Identify potential errors and biases in scoring

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Learn how to establish gateway criteria, so you don’t waste your time correcting an assignment a student didn’t spend much time on.

Learn how to focus your feedback and make sure that students will pay attention to your comments.

Learning how to design and utilize rubrics is important, since grading is such an important part of a faculty members job. We help you start off on the right foot, saving you time and providing clarity to your students. Order this program today.

Product Code: PM13QA

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With the purchase of the optional Campus Access License, registrants are granted a license to download the program contents to a password-protected network, server, or website for additional staff use. You will receive information on downloading the contents of the program within 3-5 business days after payment has been received by Magna.

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Person grades paper with see-through rubric placed over the hands grading

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