CORUBRICS

CoRubrics is a plugin for Google spreadsheets that allows you to carry out a complete evaluation process with rubrics. It is used for the teacher to evaluate the students (or groups of students) with a rubric and also for the students to co-evaluate each other with a rubric. It can only be used if students and teachers are in the same G suite domain. 

First we will have to define the rubric we want to use and then indicate the students and their email addresses. Once done, the plugin (or template) will take care of: Create a form with the contents of the Rubric. Send this form by mail to the students or give us the link (if only corrected by the teacher). 

Once the form has been answered (by the students or by the teacher), process the data to obtain the averages. Finally, send the results to the students (each one only receives their result) with a personalized comment.

In addition, CoRubrics allows: Make comments when the rubric is answered. Allow Peer-evaluation, Self-evaluation and the teacher’s evaluation in a single CoRubrics.

Corubrics has several advantages over other tools and that is that it allows three types of evaluation to be proposed:
– Evaluation by the teacher.
– Self-evaluation of the student himself/herself.
– Peer evaluation.

This gives the possibility that it is carried out in addition to a certain group of colleagues. Another aspect of the tool to highlight is that it allows the responses to be processed, obtaining a quantitative rating.
Most online tools do not usually offer this feature.
To do this, it offers several possibilities:
– Obtain the lowest grade of the qualified item.
– Obtain the qualification through the weight of the different percentages that we have granted to each item of our rubric.
– The overall grade depending on the weight assigned to the peer assessment, self-assessment and the teacher’s grade.
Finally, the tool gives us the option of being able to send the grade to students individually so that they know the grade obtained.

The operation is as follows:
1- Create a form with the contents of the Rubric.

2- Send the form by mail to the students or obtain the link if only the teacher corrects.

3- Process the data to obtain the averages:
From the teacher’s point of view, the analysis of results is very clear, offering three very interesting facts:
• Quantitative score: counting only the lowest indicator of all those evaluated.
• Quantitative note: using the weighted average of the items, according to the distribution of percentages that we have assigned to each item.
• Overall grade: depending on the weight we want to give to the peer assessment, the self-assessment or the grade established by the teacher. All this in the same row, which allows a quick comparison between the qualifications and to see where there may be significant differences between some qualifications and others.

In addition, the three differentiated evaluations appear:
– Peer evaluation (students have scored other students).
– Self-assessment (if students have scored themselves).
– Teacher evaluation.

Two global notes are also offered. A first where the final score is the lowest aspect and a second where the score is the weighted average of the aspects.

In addition, it also allows you to add comments, in the form of text, next to the note, to better guide the student in the interpretation of the scores.

4- Send the results and the comment to the students
The sending of the results to the student is configurable, allowing the selection of the type of final grade to be delivered, or the different types of evaluation carried out (peer-evaluation, self-evaluation or the teacher’s). As an innovative aspect, we highlight the possibility for the student to know the evaluation indicator that has scored the lowest so that they can improve in successive evaluations.

These two previous functionalities -analysis of results and submission of results- are the main features that differentiate Corubrics from other tools such as Rubistar, iRubric, which can offer the creation of a rubric through a template but cannot offer personalized submission. to the students.

From the point of view of the students, the tool is easy to use, they only have to fill out a form. If mobile devices are used, it is done by touch and the process is streamlined. To facilitate the peer assessment and speed up the process, it is proposed that students can use their own devices (Bring Your Own Device BYOD) useful for environments where we do not have equipment (laboratories, playground, sports center…).

To sum up, the main utility is that it is applicable to evaluate students individually or students in groups and also for evaluation only by the teacher or by co-evaluation of the students. The facility to create the form automatically and to send the results to the students by mail simplify the evaluation by rubrics.

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