Title :
Improving Students With Rubric-Based Self-Assessment and Oral Feedback
Author :
Barney, Sebastian ; Khurum, Mahvish ; Petersen, Kai ; Unterkalmsteiner, Michael ; Jabangwe, Ronald
Abstract :
Rubrics and oral feedback are approaches to help students improve performance and meet learning outcomes. However, their effect on the actual improvement achieved is inconclusive. This paper evaluates the effect of rubrics and oral feedback on student learning outcomes. An experiment was conducted in a software engineering course on requirements engineering, using the two approaches in course assignments. Both approaches led to statistically significant improvements, though no material improvement (i.e., a change by more than one grade) was achieved. The rubrics led to a significant decrease in the number of complaints and questions regarding grades.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; computer science education; educational courses; formal verification; human computer interaction; user interfaces; course assignments; oral feedback; requirements engineering; rubric-based self-assessment; software engineering course; student learning outcomes; student performance improvement; Computer science; Context; Educational institutions; Materials; Reliability; Software engineering; Taxonomy; Learning outcomes; oral feedback; perception gap; rubric-based evaluation; software engineering;
Journal_Title :
Education, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TE.2011.2172981