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VALUE Rubrics
VALUE rubrics are open educational resources (OER) that enable educators to assess students’ original work. AAC&U offers a proven methodology for applying the VALUE rubrics to evaluate student performance reliably and verifiably across 16 broad, cross-cutting learning outcomes.
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Below is a list of the 16 VALUE rubrics. Click on an outcome to preview, download, and learn more about each particular rubric.
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How to Cite VALUE Rubrics and Resources
AAC&U provides comprehensive guidance on how to refer to, cite, and reproduce the VALUE rubrics and other resources.
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Japanese Translations of AAC&U VALUE Rubrics
We are delighted to share the Japanese translation of AAC&U’s 16 VALUE rubrics as an example of the usefulness of the rubrics for assessing student learning outcomes around the world.
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The rubrics articulate fundamental criteria for each learning outcome, with performance descriptors demonstrating progressively more sophisticated levels of attainment. The rubrics are intended for institutional-level use in evaluating and discussing student learning, not for grading.
The VALUE rubrics were developed by teams of faculty experts representing colleges and universities across the United States through a process that examined many existing campus rubrics and related documents for each learning outcome and incorporated additional feedback from faculty.
The VALUE rubrics were developed by teams of faculty experts representing colleges and universities across the United States through a process that examined many existing campus rubrics and related documents for each learning outcome and incorporated additional feedback from faculty.
VALUE rubrics are open educational resources (OER) that enable educators to assess students’ original work. AAC&U offers a proven methodology for applying the VALUE rubrics to evaluate student performance reliably and verifiably across 16 broad, cross-cutting learning outcomes.
Further, the Association of American Colleges & Universities’ Critical Thinking VALUE Rubric defines critical thinking as “a habit of the mind characterized by the comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion.”.
The Creative Thinking VALUE Rubric is intended to help faculty assess creative thinking in a broad range of transdisciplinary or interdisciplinary work samples or collections of work. The rubric is made up of a set of attributes that are common to creative thinking across disciplines.
The VALUE rubrics were developed by teams of faculty experts representing colleges and universities across the United States through a process that examined many existing campus rubrics and related documents for each learning outcome and incorporated additional feedback from faculty.
This rubric was developed by an interdisciplinary team of faculty representing Texas Southmost College through a process that examined and modified the AACU Teamwork Value Rubric and the Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) rubric to meet the needs of TSC’s core curriculum assessment. The rubric articulates fundamental criteria for each ...
The capacity to combine or synthesize existing ideas, images, or expertise in original ways; thinking innovatively; and intellectual risk taking – all components of creative thinking – is part of the development of critical thinking.
Although traditional forms of assessment can identify learning that results from critical thinking, there are other effective assessments that can provide indicators of critical thinking in the process of students completing tasks relevant to your discipline. We will discuss designing rubrics for task that require students to think critically ...