If we want students to go beyond typical content mastery to develop key skills and practices that assure their success first as learners and later in the workforce, those skills need to be explicitly categorized and described, set as learning outcomes, and facilitated and assessed.
Rubrics are effective tools for instructors to assess student progress on skill development. Innovative rubrics designed by this team further provide students with specific and actionable feedback so that they can make substantive improvements. Instructors can use these rubrics in classes and laboratories of all sizes to assess student skills and provide them with rapid feedback to fuel their improvement. These rubrics support all active learning pedagogies across STEM disciplines and beyond.
Skills can be loosely categorized into two groups: process skills (known by many names, including professional, transferable, or workplace skills) and science practices.
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Printable documents in a variety of file formats (word, pdf, google sheets).
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