A First Step Towards Video Enhanced Rubrics for the Formative Assessment of Complex Skills : A literature review and a plea

Paper presentation at the TEA2016 conference, Tallinn, Estonia.

For learners, it can be difficult to imagine how to perform a complex skill from textual information found in a text-based analytic rubric. In this paper we identify three deficiencies of the text-based analytic rubric for the formative assessment of complex skills. We propose to address the text-based analytic rubric’s deficiencies by adding video modeling examples. With the resulting Video Enhanced Rubric we aim to improve the formative assessment of complex by fostering learner’s mental model development, feedback quality and complex skill mastery.

We would like to gratefully acknowledge the contribution of the Viewbrics project, that is funded by the practice-oriented research programme of the Netherlands Initiative for Education Research (NRO), part of The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).