Rubric Development Exercise

Goal:  Collaborate with your colleagues to develop a rubric for peer feedback that will help you get information useful to you for clarifying your thinking and refining your writing.

Steps:

1. Introduction (Adam, 10 min)

• Proposal evaluation (thinking about audience)
• clarity of purpose, questions, intellectual merit, broader impacts
• Writing and feedback as a process for "clarifying thought" (Woodford, 1967)
• • rubrics for peer feedback

2. Form groups (5 min)

• Group 1 https://goo.gl/ZXeYsU Links to an external site.
• Group 2 https://goo.gl/A4DjSP Links to an external site.
• Group 3 https://goo.gl/jknIoi Links to an external site.
• Group 4 https://goo.gl/m5OgYC Links to an external site.
• Group 5 https://goo.gl/7Uwi0C Links to an external site.
• Group 6 https://goo.gl/V5SOr6 Links to an external site.

3. Group work: draft/adapt a peer feedback rubric (30 min)

• Proposal writing resources: https://goo.gl/I2spJA Links to an external site.
• Rubric examples
• http://graduateschool.nd.edu/assets/52073/rubric.pdf Links to an external site.
• https://www.rcampus.com/rubricshowc.cfm?code=L548C7&sp=yes& Links to an external site.
• http://www.augusta.edu/gradstudies/documents/thesis-rubric.pdf Links to an external site.
• NSF Proposal Guidelines Links to an external site.

4. As a class: Compare rubrics and synthesize key categories and criteria for peer feedback (15 min)