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ÃÞ»¨ÌÇÖ±²¥ 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: - 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.
Teaching Professor articles:
- The "why" of class participation, College Teaching, 56(1), 2008
Rubric Repository Offered by ÃÞ»¨ÌÇÖ±²¥ 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
Tools for Rubric Creation: