Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and prayers and peace be upon the Seal of the Prophets and Messengers, and after: The Vice Rectorate for Educational and Academic Affairs has always pursued an approach characterized by constant pursuit of education service and development; To build a distinguished academic environment that supports excellence and creativity in learning and teaching, and to improve educational outcomes to keep up with development plans and meet the needs of the labor market. The Vice Rectorate is committed to its approach to continuous development and updating in line with the continuous developments in the educational field through the implementation of a number of developmental programs and projects. In view of the remarkable development witnessed in recent years regarding the concept of evaluation, its strategies and tools; The Vice Rectorate for Educational and Academic Affairs has sought after activating these procedures in measuring learning outcomes and results in academic courses by adopting and supporting the Rubrics project. By which we can evaluate student performance through a set of criteria associated with educational goals that describe student performance at multiple levels. It contributes to accuracy, objectivity and transparency in evaluating students’ work and improving their performance assessment practices in the academic education. Moreover, it also achieves excellence in the field of learning and teaching with a clear vision that ensures the effectiveness of teaching and the quality of learning outcomes. Hence, we urge faculty members to make the most of this project and its outputs, which we hope from God will bring about a distinct shift in assessment processes and procedures and contribute to diversity in this field.
Prof. Mohammed.S. Al-Numay
The Vice Rector for Educational & Academic Affairs
The Rubrics project is one of the educational process development projects at King Saud University. It seeks to achieve three goals of the strategic plan for learning and teaching, which are: supporting and encouraging faculty members to achieve excellence in the field of learning and teaching, providing a distinguished academic environment that supports excellence and creativity in learning and teaching, and developing a system for continuous improvement that ensures the effectiveness of teaching and the quality of learning outcomes.
The Rubrics project aims to improve the practices of assessing students' academic performance by spreading the culture of using the rubrics to achieve learning outcomes. It provides a website that displays rubrics in both Arabic and English. When a faculty member chooses the rubrics compatible with the requirements of his/her course, they may adjust the criteria and weights according to the course’s specialized goals. A number of templates are available on the website, categorized according to the most common tasks in the academic education, which are: (presentations, electronic discussions, class discussions, infographics, scientific posters, research papers, reflective papers, criticizing papers, field visits, graduation project, laboratories reports, and achievement portfolios). Rubrics models have also been uploaded to the Blackboard Learning Management System to make it easier for the faculty member to use them directly with the assignments associated in the course pages on the Blackboard system.
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