International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Volume 3, Number 2, July 2009
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A Method for Collaboratively Developing and Validating a Rubric
Assessing student learning outcomes relative to a valid and
reliable standard that is academically-sound and employer-relevant presents
a challenge to the scholarship of teaching and learning. In this paper,
readers are guided through a method for collaboratively developing and
validating a rubric that integrates baseline data collected from academics
and professionals. The method addresses two additional goals: (1) to
formulate and test a rubric as a teaching and learning protocol for
a multi-section course taught by various instructors; and (2) to assure
that students’ learning outcomes are consistently assessed against
the rubric regardless of teacher or section. Steps in the process include
formulating the rubric, collecting data, and sequentially analyzing
the techniques used to validate the rubric and to insure precision in
grading papers in multiple sections of a course.
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Sandra Allen
Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, USA
sallen@colum.edu
I am a businesswoman turned educator. For more than twenty-five years, I practiced corporate public relations. I am now an assistant professor and director of public relations studies in the Marketing Communication department at Columbia College Chicago. I teach or have taught courses in public relations writing, social change communication, political and government relations, and global, multicultural public relations. My research interests include learning styles of the Millennial generation student, and pedagogical development, particularly as it related to students’ career-readiness. I earned an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University, and a M.A. degree from the University of Texas at Dallas. I have authored articles for academic, national trade and communications publications.
John Knight
University of Tennessee at Martin
Martin, Tennessee, USA
jknight@utm.edu
I am a professor of Operations, Management and Statistics in the Department of Management, Marketing, and Political Science at the University of Tennessee at Martin. I hold a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. My research interests include quality control and improvement through design of experiments, productivity improvement through lean operations, and pedagogical development. I have published articles in the Journal of Operations Management, the Production and Inventory Management Journal, and the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. I currently teach courses in operations management, statistics and quality improvement.