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Continuing my journey on designing and refining criterion-referenced assessment rubrics
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I am delighted that my 2006 article was in the top 10 most downloaded articles on the 10 year anniversary of the Journal of Learning Design. In 2006, when the article was written, I worked at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). At that time, the development of criterion-referenced assessment rubrics was gaining momentum. In 2015, as I write this reflection, all 37 Australian universities that support a law school universally accept criterion-referenced assessment as opposed to norm-referenced assessment. This year, I started working at the University of the Sunshine Coast and I am proud to say that its assessment policy explicitly endorses the development of criterion-referenced assessment rubrics. I have published several journal articles on designing and implementing criterion-referenced assessment rubrics and it continues to be my quintessential research interest.
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