Authentic Tasks and Rubrics: Going Beyond Traditional Assessments in College Teaching

By Kathleen Montgomery. 2002

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Using rubrics to assess information literacy (2006, background): “it requires a student to apply what he or she has learned to a specific task (Montgomery, 2002).”
Assessing and Improving the Quality of Group Critical Thinking Exhibited in the Final Projects of Collaborative Learning Groups (2006, background): “…sensitizing students to the role of self-evaluation in the writing process (Bangert-Drowns, Kulik, Kulik, & Morgan, 1991; Butler & Winne, 1995) and making students aware of what needs to be accomplished “as they work through the process to arrive at the desired product” (Montgomery, 2002, p. 35).”
Interpretations of criteria‐based assessment and grading in higher education (2005, background): “They are often distributed to students on so-called ‘grading criteria sheets’ or as ‘scoring rubrics’ at the time the assessment task is set (Brooker et al., 1998; Montgomery, 2002).”