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Menéndez-Varela, José-Luis; Gregori-Giralt, Eva – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
Rubrics are widely used in higher education to assess performance in project-based learning environments. To date, the sources of error that may affect their reliability have not been studied in depth. Using generalisability theory as its starting-point, this article analyses the influence of the assessors and the criteria of the rubrics on the…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Student Projects, Active Learning, Reliability
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Menéndez-Varela, José-Luis; Gregori-Giralt, Eva – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
Rubrics have attained considerable importance in the authentic and sustainable assessment paradigm; nevertheless, few studies have examined their contribution to validity, especially outside the domain of educational studies. This empirical study used a quantitative approach to analyse the validity of a rubrics-based performance assessment. Raters…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Validity, Performance Based Assessment, College Freshmen
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McCrea, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Management Education, 2010
Despite fairly widespread recognition that entrepreneurship occurs in both profit and nonprofit enterprises, a review of experiential learning techniques in entrepreneurship education does not explicitly mention service-learning. This omission may be because of a perceived lack of relevance of the pedagogy to entrepreneurship, the belief that…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Experiential Learning, Learning Experience, Entrepreneurship
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Vega, Gina – Journal of Management Education, 2007
The urgent messages of good business include the importance of ethical management behaviors, focus on corporate citizenship, recognition of principled leadership, moral awareness, and participation in social change. This article describes the Service Learning Metaproject (a nested set of projects required of all students) and shows what students…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Social Change, Ethics, Teaching Methods
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Graduate School of Education. – 2001
Rural Trust schools and communities embrace an education that values what is unique to a particular place in an effort to promote mutual school and community well-being. This local focus engages students academically, pairing real world relevance with intellectual rigor. It also develops skills that promote citizenship, such as decision making,…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Performance Based Assessment, Place Based Education