There are two types of assessment instruments: rubrics and scored checklists. Rubrics have distinct performance scoring levels, whereas scored checklists allow the assessor to enter a single score within an indicated range for each criterion. You may access rubrics and checklists from the Admin Drop-Down Menu using the 'Assessment Instruments' option.
Special Applications
'Not Applicable' scoring criteria - On occasion you may want to use a special rubric application, such as an additional ‘Not Applicable’ performance level. These types of performance levels should not be added to the default performance levels, since they will not be used regularly and are not included in the assessment data calculations.
Rubrics with a 'Not Applicable' option are created by adding a level of performance to a rubric and setting this final level for each criterion to have no score . The level description should be entered as something like "This criterion was not applicable at this time and therefore not assessed”. Where this approach is applied, the score for this criterion will be ignored in all calculations. Choose the 'No' option in the 'Include' category.
'Met/Not Met' - The special case of dichotomous performance levels includes 'Met/Not Met', 'Present/Not Present', 'Pass/Fail', etc. These are not rubrics, but rather types of checklists. To create a 'Met/Not Met' rubric: On the Edit Assessment Instrument screen, scroll to the bottom and find the Performance levels section. Delete all but the first two performance levels. Edit the labels for the two performance levels to Not Met (value=0) and Met (value =1). 'Met/NotMet' checklists should not be linked to Standards because the score (0/1) does not represent competency-based performance assessment.
Assessment Regimes
There are several assessment regimes to choose from at the time that you are creating your rubric. These include the most common regime: 'Candidate to Choose Assessor', as well as 'Manual Assessment', 'Submit to an Assessor Pool', 'Candidate to Choose External Assessor',and 'Self Evaluation' - see 'Assessment Regimes'
What do You Want to Do?
Archive a Assessment Instrument
Copy an Assessment InstrumentSee ""
video tutorial - How to enter a new Rubric into the system 'Creating a new rubric
Edit Default Performance Levels
Hold Scores During Assessment See "Holding Scores for Later Release "
Hold Scores with an Escalation Scheme See ""
Link Standards to Rubrics from the Standards Section