Text-based rubrics alone provide insufficient contextual, dynamic and procedural information to support rich mental model development of complex skills¶
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q1 i? The authors argue text-based rubrics are fragmentary, lack contextual and dynamic information, and do not provide the procedural information needed to support automation of constituent skills, risking incomplete mental models. → Kevin Ackermans 2019
Evidence¶
Kevin Ackermans 2019¶
Kevin Ackermans, Ellen Rusman, Saskia Brand-Gruwel, Marcus Specht. (2019). Solving instructional design dilemmas to develop a Video Enhanced Rubric with modeling examples to support mental model development of complex skills: the Viewbrics-project use case. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-019-09668-1
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Theoretical argument in the introduction, not a tested result. The authors state a text-based rubric "lacks the contextual information needed to convey the real world attributes" and that rubrics "do not provide the procedural information needed to support the automation of constituent skills". No data are reported.
"Second, a text-based rubric lacks the contextual information needed to convey the real world attributes and natural context of skills' execution and a representation of dynamic information (such as gesturing in the complex skill of presenting)"
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Text-based rubrics alone provide insufficient contextual, dynamic and procedural information to support rich mental model development of complex skills |
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Text-based rubrics alone provide insufficient contextual, dynamic and procedural information to support rich mental model development of complex skills |
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