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The University of Virginia has developed a pilot program that enables faculty members to use everyday tasks—grading student work and providing feedback to students—to collect assessment data. Faculty in five schools employ an interactive rubric software program that facilitates grading and feedback for students; at the same time, the program captures and organizes the data for assessment purposes. By using rubrics to articulate clear expectations for student learning and to evaluate student work, and by linking those rubrics to program learning outcomes, faculty grading serves as a natural mechanism for assessment and for determining student strengths and weaknesses. The software shows how well students, in the aggregate, perform according to criteria reflected in the rubrics. Faculty can analyze data to address more specific questions, such as inter-rater reliability, longitudinal student achievement, and performance of subgroups. Faculty participating in the pilot reported that their use of the software improved teaching, grading and assessment.
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