RubricAce TM: A Case-based Feedback Recommender for Coursework Assessment

UK Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning 2011.

社会科学（总论）;计算机科学

Nirmalie Wiratunga1 ; Ibrahim Adeyanju1 ; Paul Coghill1 ; Clemence Pera2 ; 2 Computing Department ; Institute of Technology

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来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Coursework based student assessment is a core task in schools and higher education institutions. Grading coursework is commonly guided by means of a pre-defined marking scheme commonly known as a Rubric. The aim of the Rubric is two-fold: to help students understand the expectation for achieving each of the grades along one or more specific judging criterion; and to help assessors provide contextualised individual feedback. Accordingly the assessor would normally be expected not only to assign grades but also to explain this assignment through individual feedback text. Aim of RubricAce is to support assessors by providing feedback recommendations. It does this by adopting the CBR paradigm of reusing feedback allocated to previous similarly graded students for a given coursework. Whilst this allows RubricAce to mimic human behaviour, in doing so it helps to maintain consistency and fairness; hence, improving overall feedback quality. RubricAce also includes management tools to visualise similarly graded students, charts to view the distribution of grades and functionality to import and export student records. Initial demonstrations of RubricAce functionality to academic staff at the Robert Gordon University has been well received. However a more comprehensive user study is planned for the future.