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SUCCESS
Housing professionals find rubrics to be a valuable tool in the direct assessment of student learning.
By Joseph D. Levy, David A. McKelfresh, and Jody A. Donovan
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hen it comes to campus housing and student affairs, it is becoming a fact of life that outcomes-based assessment is integral to the work. What form this assessment takes may change. For example, oftentimes indirect measures of learning – like agreement scales for self-reported knowledge or frequency scales for behavior – are favored. However, an underutilized, and potentially misunderstood, method is a rubric.
Commonplace in academia, rubrics are useful in numerous assessment efforts as they are direct measures of learning. Rubrics help eliminate the vagueness of what is “good” or “bad” and instead allow for consistency and objectivity in evaluating behavior or performance through observation or document analysis. They do this by utilizing dimensions or criteria, a scale to score or evaluate subjects, and detailed descriptions that illustrate how one should score or evaluate the subject for a given dimension. Depending on the type of rubric utilized, all of these components are present, though they can be represented somewhat differently. Though rubrics may not necessarily be commonplace in campus housing, there are a number of attributes that make them valuable options to consider. First, as a direct measure of learning, rubrics directly evaluate a student’s work. With the increasing focus on student learning, this may be the most important reason to implement the use of rubrics. Second, rubrics provide an additional method to assist in triangulation of data. Rubrics, along with survey results, individual interview responses, and focus group responses, can help provide a perspective on and context for the results, and good assessment practices ensure that data is measured in more than
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Talking Stick - January 2012
Talking Stick - January 2012
Contents
New Member Highlight
Vision
Just In
Your ACUHO-I
Transitions
Res Life
Special Focus
Regroup
Calendar
A Scale for Success
Welcome to Our House
Conversations
First Takes
Reporting Out
Welcome
Snapshot
Talking Stick - January 2012 - Intro
Talking Stick - January 2012 - BB1
Talking Stick - January 2012 - BB2
Talking Stick - January 2012 - Talking Stick - January 2012
Talking Stick - January 2012 - Cover2
Talking Stick - January 2012 - 1
Talking Stick - January 2012 - 2
Talking Stick - January 2012 - Contents
Talking Stick - January 2012 - New Member Highlight
Talking Stick - January 2012 - 5
Talking Stick - January 2012 - Vision
Talking Stick - January 2012 - 7
Talking Stick - January 2012 - Just In
Talking Stick - January 2012 - 9
Talking Stick - January 2012 - 10
Talking Stick - January 2012 - 11
Talking Stick - January 2012 - 12
Talking Stick - January 2012 - Your ACUHO-I
Talking Stick - January 2012 - 14
Talking Stick - January 2012 - Transitions
Talking Stick - January 2012 - 16
Talking Stick - January 2012 - 17
Talking Stick - January 2012 - Res Life
Talking Stick - January 2012 - 19
Talking Stick - January 2012 - 20
Talking Stick - January 2012 - Special Focus
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Talking Stick - January 2012 - 23
Talking Stick - January 2012 - Regroup
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Talking Stick - January 2012 - 26
Talking Stick - January 2012 - Calendar
Talking Stick - January 2012 - A Scale for Success
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Talking Stick - January 2012 - Welcome to Our House
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Talking Stick - January 2012 - Conversations
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Talking Stick - January 2012 - 46
Talking Stick - January 2012 - First Takes
Talking Stick - January 2012 - Reporting Out
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Talking Stick - January 2012 - Welcome
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Talking Stick - January 2012 - Snapshot
Talking Stick - January 2012 - Cover3
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