Rubrics in evaluation

Abstract

This research paper designs to show the quintessential importance of the rubrics in evaluation of the learners in the outcome based education. The paper attempts to communicate expectations of quality around a task. Rubrics is an evaluative criterion which can be used to measure expected levels of performance of the learners. Rubrics can make brilliant culmination in the traditional approach to assess learners. It is used to delineate consistent criteria for grading. Outcome based education is flourished with rubrics in evaluation system. Rubrics allows teachers and students alike to evaluate criteria which can be complex and subjective. Scoring rubrics can also provide a basis for self-evaluation, reflection and peer review. It aims at fair assessment, fostering understanding, motivating, indicating a way to proceed with subsequent learning. Rubrics can be classified as holistic, analytic or developmental. Holistic rubric integrates all aspects of the work into a single overall rating of the work. Learners can better be judged and revised by the teachers through rubrics in diverse kinds of evaluation. A rubric measure students work against real life criteria and is referred to as a form of authentic assessment.