How is my summative assessment assignment assessed?
An automatic grading system evaluates your PDF using a detailed rubric for your assessment. It looks only at your assessment’s instructions, its rubric and what’s inside your PDF, so nothing else about you or your learning history affects your result.
Each rubric is built around what the assessment asks you to do: the tasks, the items listed under What to Submit, and the skills from the course’s learning objectives. Each part of the rubric is a topic, and every topic gets its own level and feedback. You also receive one overall Competency Level for the whole assessment. For the October Pilot, there is no human grading of summative assessments.
What do the Competency Levels mean?
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Competency Level |
What it means |
|---|---|
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Developing |
You’re not there yet on this one. Your feedback will show you exactly where to grow. |
|
Foundational |
You did it! You demonstrated proficiency at a minimal level. |
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Skilled |
You showed strong performance above the baseline! |
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Expert |
You did exceptionally well – very well done! |
Your results screen describes your level in its own words, so the short description you see there will differ from the lines above.
Where can I see the full rubric?
Each assessment has its own detailed rubric showing what each level looks like for every topic. Reading your course’s rubric before you start is one of the best ways to understand what strong work looks like. Each link opens the rubric in Google Sheets:
If you ever have concerns about your result, contact the MAS team at support@matterandspace.com.