Assignments & Assessments

Grading with Rubrics

Villanova faculty have shared criteria and rubrics that they have found helpful in setting expectations and determining students’ level of participation in their face-to-face and online courses. Please refer to them as a resource as you develop or refine your criteria for documenting students’ contributions. We encourage you to contact the faculty colleagues for further information, and invite you to email us your participation rubric for inclusion in the repository: vitalinfo@villanova.edu

Video: Rubrics: Tools for Learning, Teaching, and Assessment - Dr. Bauer outlines the process of rubric creation and implementation and shares sample rubrics.
Suskie, L. (2004). What is a rubic? In Assessing student learning, pp. 124-136.
Grade Profiles
VALUE rubric

Teaching Professor articles:

How accurately do students track their participation?
Grading participation fairly: Student perceptions
Participation blues from the student perspective
The "why" of class participation, College Teaching, 56(1), 2008

Rubric Repository Offered by Villanova Faculty

Criteria for Student Participation in In-Class Discussions
Analytic Discussion Forum Rubric - undergraduate-level course, Online Classroom, December 2013
Rubric for Discussion Peer Evaluation - in-class, undergraduate-level courses
Expectations for Discussion Board- online, graduate level course
Instructions for Oral Test - face-to-face, undergraduate-level course
Participation Guide for Online Discussion - synchronous, graduate-level course
Rubric for Assessing Students' Contributions to Online Discussion Forum
Rubric for Grading Students' Postings to Asynchronous Discussion Board and/or Blogs - face-to-face, undergraduate-level courses
Rubric and Self-Assessment Form for In-Class Participation - face-to-face, undergraduate-level course
Syllabus Excerpts Related to Evaluating Participation - face-to-face, undergraduate-level course
Rubric for Assessing Writing
Rubric for Assessing Class Presentations