Rubric Assessment:Grading a Design Rubric
An assessment of whether you can tell a working evaluation rubric from a broken one. You are given a finished presentation deck, the brief that produced it, and a rubric somebody wrote to grade that deck, together with the ten rules they were told to follow. You review the rubric and say what is wrong with it, up to five findings, each ruled on by two other people who read the same packet. The ten rules are published up front, and so are the defects we already found; restating either scores nothing. What is measured is whether the rubric would actually work. No design software needed, about 45 minutes.
Three ways in
A place on a board is earned per finding rather than per attempt, because most findings do not clear the checks and volume is not the thing being measured.
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Sit the assessment
This exam is closed to new attempts. The brief and the published risk list stay up, and the next assessment opens on the same terms.
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Check other people's findings
Two people rule on every finding, and the queue only moves if the people in it do the checking. You see the finding with the author removed from the record before it reaches you, and answer one question: does this actually happen.
Open the queue - 03
Propose material
An assessment needs two things: a real artefact, and an honest list of the problems its authors already know about. If you have both, we want it. The hard part of building these is finding work that is genuinely worth examining.
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