Tonight I watched the Open Ed 2021 session “Engaging With the VALUE Rubrics: An OER Tool for Assessment of Student Learning.” This topic was particularly timely since today we talked about rubrics during our RIOS Learning Community! Jessica Chittum and Britt Spears from the Association of American Colleges and Universities presented this session. The VALUE rubrics stand for: Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education. The rubrics are available as OER and can be downloaded and edited. Spears explained how over 615,000 VALUE rubrics have been downloaded since 2014! The website for the VALUE rubrics is: aacu..org/value There are sixteen rubrics and VALUE outcomes. You can click either PDF or Doc. The cost is $0 and the checkout system is intended to gather information about users. Chittum spoke about the assumptions and how student work is evaluated with the VALUE rubrics. I appreciate how this is an asset-based rubric. The example included learning outcomes, a definition, a framing statement, and a glossary. The second page of the rubric includes the rubric itself. All sixteen rubrics have five or six dimensions. Rubrics start left to right with the “capstone” level. There is a level zero if no evidence is observed. VALUE ADD is the Assignment Design and Diagnostic Tool. The tool helps educators design assignments that align with learning outcomes. The critical thinking VALUE ADD tool sounds very useful! They also mentioned they are designing a written communication VALUE ADD tool. I will keep this in mind for some of the public science and science communication assignments.
