A Rubric Developed for Assessing Student’s Work and Performance

• In Event: Measurement Methods for Complex Problems in Higher Education

Abstract

The study presented aims to investigate the rubric development of second language learners' argumentative writing. The study's significance is to explore how well the rubric assesses students' achievement of the skills needed to develop argumentative essays. This research describes the results of the current study in relation to rubric feedback from undergraduate students and the faculty who teach them from a private university in Saudi Arabia. The use of the rubric would be to support instruction and student performance. The rubric was developed to evaluate the following criterion: organization, integrating academic sources, thesis statement, finding evidence/lack of evidence, writing refutation paragraph, writing counterclaims, content, academic tone, mechanic, and vocabulary.

Authors

• Burhan Ozfidan, Florida Gulf Coast University

• Connie Mitchell, Prince Sultan University