Project 2 FEA Tool
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FEAToolProject.pdf
Project Proposal
OPTION 1: Requirements for Initial proposal for FEA Tool:
For the initial proposal, you should address the first three questions: overview, background, and
purpose
Overview
Built by Cindah, iRubric is a powerful scoring tool used to create rubrics through a click-to-
grade technology that enables a user to build and share rubrics. The system is often used to measure
English comprehension and proficiency for an Adult ESL class. When used in conjunction with
the Rcampus LMS, the iRubric system become a great way to build rubrics and share with the
students with the aim of effectively assessing the progress students are making or tasks. Apart
from assessing them, the system also enables an educator to invite other educators to offer their
input in the same student’s work, and at the end of the joint assessment, give a comprehensive
report that can be sent back to the student. iRubric enhances the effectiveness of scoring by
educators by encouraging them to be more subjective and authentic in their assessment.
Basically, iRubric enables better scoring by helping educators to communicate their
expectations to the students way in advance, so that when it comes to grading, the educator will be
more objective in their scoring. Through iRubric, educator are able to be of optimal help to learners
by being clear not only on the expected outcomes in a task, but also in giving clear feedback as to
why a student managed a certain score. This way, students and teachers have a relatively easier
time understanding what they need to do in order to yield greater results in their work.
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Background
iRubric was started by Cindah with the aim of helping educators to solve the mystery of how to
effective and subjectively measure and guarantee the quality of tasks in the education sector. This
had been an issue of concern to many learning institutions before, thus Cindah’s solution came as
a major relief to many. With the growing number of courses offered though the internet, and the
increased number of learners, meaning that teachers had little time to meet the needs of every
individual student, such a tool was greatly important as it maintained the integrity of learning. The
system helped to reduce the workload on educators since it enabled the evaluation of large sets of
documents efficiently, quicker and in a more dynamic manner.
Purpose
iRubric is a great tool to use since it measures students in the English language proficiency.
With this tool, it is relatively easy for teachers to be able to measure the level of progress that
students are making, especially when it comes to students who are taking English as a second
language. The better tutors are able to measure the progress, the better the understanding they have
in terms of where more attention is needed, and in what areas a student is strong. This way,
educators can offer the best services paying attention to the areas of weakness per student.
The focus of this tool is proper scoring based on proper communication of expected outcomes.
Through iRubric, educators can communicate their objectives early enough and in a clear manner,
enabling the learners to follow a criteria that will help them perform better. The rubric encourages
plenty of healthy interaction between educators and learners, since educators are able to understand
the specific needs of their students in an objective way, enabling them to tackle the specific
challenges that would make the difference in the students performance. A greater performance
keeps the students motivated, encouraging them to perform even better and understand the English
Language.
The rubric categorizes performance in terms of advanced, high intermediate, intermediate,
lower intermediate and beginning level. In order to grade more effectively, the rubric divides the
areas of attention into reading, writing, speaking and listening, all of which are measured based on
the five categories mentioned earlier.
References
IRubric - RCampus Wiki. (2019). Retrieved from http://help.rcampus.com/index.php/Rubrics
iRubric Is An Excellent Tool for Creating Rubrics and Gradebooks. (2019). Retrieved from
https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2015/11/irubric-is-excellent-tool-for-creati
ng.html
iRubric: English as a Second Language Rubric - H3AXBB: RCampus. (2019). Retrieved
from https://www.rcampus.com/rubricshowc.cfm?sp=yes&code=H3AXBB&
TeachersFirst Review - iRubric. (2019). Retrieved from
https://www.teachersfirst.com/single.cfm?id=10444
