AI Assessment - Rubric Generation
Rubrics are essential for students to reflect on their learning and identify gaps. Rubrics provide clear criteria and standards for performance, allowing students to understand expectations and assess their progress. This process helps students recognize their strengths and weaknesses and guides them in setting specific goals for improvement. Effective rubric generation facilitates meaningful self-assessment and fosters a growth mindset, ultimately enhancing the learning experience and promoting academic success.
WHY Is This Important
Using generative AI for rubrics is important because it saves time, ensures fairness, allows customization, follows best practices, scales easily, improves continuously and fosters innovative teaching.
What Will be Learned
Rubric Design
Students Involvement
Rubric-Based Feedback
Tools (optional)
Examples of tools that may be useful for this task:
Reflective Practices
1. | How to Create Rubrics with a Chatgpt TCEA, June 2023 (Article) Why Should I Read This?Discovering new ways to enhance grading and evaluation practices is an important part of the continual development of an educator's skills and ability to maintain a fair and equitable classroom. | What is most important to consider when designing rubrics using Generative AI? Ethical UseWhen generating rubrics to assess student work, it is crucial to eliminate biases and ensure that rubrics measure objectives fairly. Involving students in the creation process will foster a sense of ownership and promote the development of a more equitable rubric. 4 Ways to Fight Bias in Grading Edutopia, January. 2022 (Website) This article is for those looking to understand the various types of bias. | Choose a task you want students to perform and create a rubric for it using Chatgpt (Sample Script). Use the article Rubric Best Practices, Examples, and Templates NC State Univ., 2024 (Article) to assess the quality of the rubric. Involve students in the creation of the rubric. One way to begin involving students would be to collaborate with them on selecting the language for the scoring scale. |
| 2. | 4 Generative AI Tools to Create Grading Rubrics Matt Bergman, May 2024 (Video 5 minutes 51 seconds) Why Should I Watch This Video?You will learn how to use Gen AI tools to create rubrics in a very easy-to-follow manner. You will be able to use the information right away to support your rubric development. | How could you use these tools with students to involve them in the rubric creation process? Ethical UseBe sure to review the end-user agreements for your various applications. You want to remain aware of any agreement that violates student data privacy laws. | Explore Some More: Choose two of the Generative AI tools discussed in the video. Use each tool to create a rubric for the same performance task. Compare the rubrics and ask yourself,
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3. | Unlocking Academic Excellence: Using Generative AI to Create Custom Rubrics GT Center for Teaching and Learning, May 2024, (Article) Why Should I Read This?Learn ways to enhance grading practices that support quality feedback to students. The article supports you in gaining valuable insights into the benefits and challenges of using rubrics as an assessment tool, including how they set clear expectations, ensure grading consistency, and promote student independence. Why Should I Read This?How to Co-Create Rubrics Applied Coaching for Projects, May 2022 (Article).Collaborating with students on rubric creation can be challenging. This resource provides extensive resources on managing the process to ultimately support students in gaining a deeper understanding of what is expected of them. How to Provide Better Feedback Through Rubrics ASCD, April 2022 (Article) Why Should I Read This?You will learn how rubrics can help provide clear and specific feedback that is consistent for all learners. | How can I use Generative AI to improve my rubrics to set clear expectations, ensure consistent grading, and promote student independence while avoiding potential bias? Ethical UseReviewing these articles will expand your awareness and understanding of identifying and avoiding bias in your practice. As you read, ask yourself if your assessments are reflective of your student population. Can all the students see themselves in their assessments? The Understanding Bias in Understanding Bias in Assessment Design Learner Center Initiatives, 2016 (Article) is an older resource, but it is still relevant. It provides questions for teachers to use in assessing how they address Bias in their assessments. | Craft a rubric with students utilizing ChatGPT or another LLM like Copilot. To evaluate your generated rubric, use the rubric template provided in the shared article How to Co-Create Rubrics. Backward design a Rubric: Use ChatGPT or another LLM like Copilot to create a rubric for a lesson plan. Upload the lesson and ask for a rubric to be generated. Are our assessments reflective of the student population (“mirrors”)? Can all the students see themselves in their assessments? Mastering the Art of Rubric Creation with AI: Your Path to Grading Perfection! Khan Academy, October 2023 (Article) |
AI Prompting Work Samples
Design and Automate
How can we generate rubrics that aim to clarify expectations, guide instruction, support feedback, promote consistency, enhance self-assessment, facilitate peer assessment, improve transparency, support differentiation, encourage accountability, and streamline grading? Accomplishing all of these outcomes is a challenge; however, utilizing AI tools can be of great support in achieving the desired outcomes.
Use the following prompt in a Generative AI Chat Box of your choice to create a rubric draft that supports your work with students. Here is an example transcript using ChatGPT. Free and paid versions of generative AI chat boxes may require different levels of prompting to complete the work.
Prompt:
Act as a 5th-grade Michigan reading teacher with lots of experience creating rubrics to evaluate student work, based on the criteria in the article Rubric Best Practices, Examples, and Templates, by NC State University. You will help me generate a rubric that aligns to the learning objectives and includes student engagement. You will ask me a set of questions. Only ask one question at a time. Ask the next question after I respond to the current question. Here are the questions: What is the grade and subject? Describe the assignment or task to be performed. What would an excellent artifact look like and include? What would one in need of improvement look like? What rating scale would you like to use? What type of rubric are you creating? Is it holistic, analytical/descriptive, or single point?
Once all questions are answered, create a rubric. Feel free to adjust the script to your specific needs.
Non Chatbot Options to Try:
Sample video using MagicSchoolAI
Sample video using Khanmingo