What Are Competencies, Learning Objectives, and Rubrics?
What is a Competency?
- Knowledge, skill, ability, or characteristic needed to perform a function
- Example: Grade 5 Science – The learner will make observations and conduct investigations to build an understanding of animal behavior and adaptation
What is a Learning Objective?
- Choose the specific assessments that best evaluate a given objective within individual courses/area of learning
- Users can complete the same outcome many different ways - much more reflective on how learning takes place
- Example: Grade 5 Science – Observe and describe how all living and nonliving things affect the life of a particular animal
What are Rubrics?
Rubrics provide an objective framework for evaluators to specify and evaluate specific requirements that users must demonstrate.
- Create any number of rubrics within the system
- Share rubrics with departments, courses, semesters
- Track rubrics and receive detailed stats on rubric scores
- Course and Program expectations become transparent to learners
- Example: Grade 5 Science – Research Project on how Plants, Weather, and Climate affect Animals
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