Development of Rubric

Our rubric was developed to evaluate business and industry sites that promote and utilize simulations for training programs. We searched the Internet for websites showing simulation used for business training. We each chose our top four or five simulation websites and evaluated them using a rubric that we developed. This rubric was based on original work by Al Rogers, Global SchoolNet Foundation and CyberFair Contest and can be found at http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfmgb/web.htm. It was then modified to meet the needs for Business & Industry. Click here to view the rubric. Please note that you have to have Adobe Acrobat to view this file.

Steps:
Our choice of topic posed some interesting questions. We had to develop evaluation criteria not only for the website, but for the simulation as well. We worked through several steps as we developed our rubric.

First, we searched for sites using simulations and chose our top five to evaluate. Second, we compared and contrasted many rubrics and chose the categories we thought were the most relevant to our topic and included them in our rubric. Third, we identified and clarified the evaluation criteria for each category. Because of our topic we had to adjust our categories in order to cover a wide range of evaluation criteria. Fourth, we chose the form of the rubric. In looking at the types of rubrics, we decided to go with a checklist for ease of evaluation instead of using a scoring rubric. Our checklist form uses simple, clear criteria and the checkmarks in each section (good, mediocre, unacceptable) help decide the final score level of each site.

General Guidelines:
As we developed the rubric, we had several general guidelines that we followed.

These were:
• The rubric is to be a guide that clearly specifies the evaluation criteria
• The criteria should be separated to show categories in order to evaluate
• The criteria should have at least three levels in the measuring range.
• Keep the rubric short and concise.

The final rubric enabled us as a group to be objective and consistent in our evaluations of our separate websites.

Last updated September 27, 2001