ASSESSMENT- TASK ANALYSIS, CRITERIA DEFINITION, MARKING SCHEMES

AND SCORING RUBRICS

Marking and grading:

Task Analysis: Identify all areas of response required of the question. Highlight areas
that are more complex/challenging.

Criteria Definition: Select areas of significance (those areas that indicate

achievement of task)
Marking schemes: Definite requirements followed by assessor for checking and
allocating grades

Marking guide:
Specify content/areas/concepts/processes expected or anticipated in student
responses.
Allot marks for content specified
Consider weighting.
How much time are they gonna spend answering a question? Establish an average

Scoring rubrics:
Rubrics are rating scales that are used with performances assessments. They
consist of specific pre-established performance criteria, used in evaluating student
work on performance assessment.
Rubrics are specific form of scoring instrument used when evaluating student
performances or products resulting from a performance task.

Types of rubrics:
A holistic rubric requires the lecturer to score the overall process or product as a
whole, without judging the component parts separately (Nitko, 2001)
An analytic rubric: the lecturer scores separate, individual parts of the product or
performance first, then sums the individual scores to obtain a total score (Moskal,
2000; Nitko, 2001)

Holistic rubrics are customarily utilized when errors in some part of the process can
be tolerated provided the overall quality is high
The use of the holistic rubrics is probably more appropriate when performance tasks
require students to create some sort of response and where there is no definitive
correct answer
Use of holistic rubrics can result in a somewhat quicker scoring process than use of
analytic rubrics (Nitko, 2001)
Assessment of the overall performance is the key, and the purpose of the
performance assessment is summative in nature
Limited feedback is provided to the student as a result of scoring performance tasks
in this manner.

Analytic rubric:
Analityc rubrics are usually preferred when a fairly focused type of response is
required.
Used for assessing performance tasks in which there may be more than one
acceptable responses
Analytic rubrics result initially in several scores, followed by a summed total scoretheir uses represents assessment on a multimidensional level
The scoring process is substantially slowly, since assessing several different skills or
characteristics individually requires one to examine the result several times.
The construction of analytic rubircs can be quite time-consuming
Beginning
Criteria 1
Criteria 2
Criteria 3

Developing

Accomplishe
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Exemplary

Score