Evaluation by Rubrics: A Computerized System

Juan Cristobal Barrón, Humberto Blanco, José René Blanco, Judith M. Rodríguez-Villalobos, Jesús Viciana

Department of Physical Education and Sport, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Faculty of Physical Culture Sciences, Autonomous University of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico.

DOI: 10.4236/ce.2014.512124                

Abstract

This report details a computerized system that allows teachers to use rubrics as a means of evaluation in a curriculum competency. The computerized system for evaluation by rubrics allows you to design them, modify them, and generate a bank with them so that they can be used later. It is a software that allows you to assess, co-assess, and self-assess either team or individually, the evidence of learning in a course through rubrics and represents an example of how the proper use of the new technologies can become a differentiating factor assessment process of learning about traditional evaluative practices by providing tools that allow use of time and material resources in a more effective and efficient manner both, for the teacher and the student.

Keywords

Rubrics, Curriculum Competency, Software, New Technologies

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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