Rubric Use in Technical Communication: Exploring the Process of Creating Valid and Reliable Assessment Tools

Assessing the quality of student efforts and products is a continual necessity for academics and practitioners in technical communication; however, the process of constructing valid and reliable rubrics remains an underexplored topic in the field. This paper first addresses some of the assessment co...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on professional communication 2010-03, Vol.53 (1), p.4-17
Main Author: Boettger, R.K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accreditation
Assessment
College students
Communication industry
Criteria
Cultural differences
Education
Educational evaluation
Feedback
Industrial training
interrater reliability
Performance analysis
Performance evaluation
Professional communication
Reliability
rubrics
Studies
Technical communication
Writing
writing assessment
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Summary:Assessing the quality of student efforts and products is a continual necessity for academics and practitioners in technical communication; however, the process of constructing valid and reliable rubrics remains an underexplored topic in the field. This paper first addresses some of the assessment concerns and then describes a case study that documents the development and implementation of one holistic and five analytic rubrics to evaluate undergraduate projects. The discussion focuses on identifying site-specific criteria and training effective raters and is intended to help academics respond to their required accreditation mandates and offer practitioners alternatives for evaluating products and services.
ISSN:0361-1434
1558-1500
DOI:10.1109/TPC.2009.2038733