Implementation of adaptable rubrics for CAD model quality formative assessment
- Autores: Pedro Company, Jeffrey Otey, Manuel Roberto Contero González, María Jesús Agost Torres, Arnau Almiñana
- Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 32, no. 2 (Parte A ), 2016, págs. 749-761
- Idioma: inglés
- Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
-
Resumen
Evaluation rubrics are helpful as formative tools to convey quality criteria from the beginning of the training period offuture mechanical CAD users. But rubrics should provide feedback and evolve dynamically to adapt to different learningpaces. Computer-Assisted Assessment (CAA) tools can easily provide automatic feedback, although they are sometimeslinked to general purpose educational tools, which may be complicated, costly and non-customizable, thus preventingteachers from adopting them. Hence, our main concern is finding CAA tools easy-to-use and compatible with adaptablerubrics. In this paper, a prototype of a spreadsheet-based adaptable rubric is designed and tested in three experiments,which involved until 43 mechanical engineering degree students. Results are analyzed to conclude that spreadsheet formsare unpractical, as its implementation requires expertise in spreadsheet programming, and extracting information from thespreadsheet-rubrics is time consuming. But the main conclusion from this proof of concept is that adaptable rubrics can beimplemented, and allow students to evolve at different pace. Rubrics structured around different dimensions which areprogressively developed in increasing levels of detail can be efficiently implemented as adaptable rubrics, by simply foldingthe low level details and allowing the user to freely unfold them under request.
