16 Inspiration Rubric Models

Inspirations

The Equity Through OER rubric was inspired by other rubrics and models. Below are brief descriptions of each inspiration.

Transfer Playbook and Tools for Colleges

Aspen Institute and the Community College Research Center. (2016) Transfer Playbook and Tools for Colleges. From: https://highered.aspeninstitute.org/transfer-playbook-and-tools-for-colleges/

Based on original research into the practices of six highly effective community college-university partnerships, The Transfer Playbook, published by Aspen and the Community College Research Center in 2016, describes how institutions can improve transfer student outcomes through three core strategies: prioritizing transfer, creating clear transfer program maps, and establishing dedicated transfer advising. The report provides concrete examples of essential strategies as well as a checklist of how to get started.

VALUE Critical Thinking Rubrics

Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). (n.d) VALUE Critical Thinking Rubrics.  From:  https://www.aacu.org/initiatives/value-initiative/value-rubrics

VALUE rubrics are open educational resources (OER) that enable educators to assess students’ original work. AAC&U offers a proven methodology for applying the VALUE rubrics to evaluate student performance reliably and verifiably across sixteen broad, cross-cutting learning outcomes.

NERCHE Self-Assessment Rubric for the Institutionalization of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education

New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE). (n.d.)  NERCHE Self-Assessment Rubric for the Institutionalization of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education.  From: https://compact.org/resource-posts/nerches-self-assessment-rubric-for-the-institutionalization-of-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-in-higher-education/

NERCHE’s Self-Assessment Rubric offers a template for gauging important indicators among the six campus dimensions: philosophy and mission; faculty support; teaching, research, and service; staff engagement; student involvement; and administrative leadership and institutional support.

NASH Equity Action Framework (word)

National Association of System Heads (NASH). (2020) NASH Equity Framework. From: https://nashonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/NASH-Equity-Action-Framework-Summary.pdf

With the Equity Action Framework, NASH is working intentionally to expand the equity lens that is core to its mission. Recognizing that systems and their campuses are at different stages in this work, this tool will enable higher education systems to assess their progress toward, and act on the adoption and integration of essential equity practices. The framework is designed to promote explicit and sustained engagement with equity, inviting NASH members to look deeply into the mirror in order to examine and act on the role of university systems in addressing systemic inequities that are institutionalized, however unintentionally, within our colleges and universities that so many have worked hard and long to make bastions of student access, opportunity and success.

Northern New York Library Network Grant Proposal Scoring Rubric (pdf)

Northern New York Library Network (2019) Grant Proposal Scoring Rubric. (pdf) From: https://nnyln.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Grant-Proposal-Scoring-Rubric.pdf

The Northern New York Library Network is a regional non-profit multi-type library agency dedicated to distributing resources and services among its members in the 12,000 square mile, seven-county area known as the North Country. Member organizations include all types of libraries: academics, school (P-12), public, archives, and special libraries. The purpose of the Network is to provide collaboration and support to help members meet their individual goals, for the ultimate benefit of the library user. To that end they offer member organizations grant opportunities each year.

Peralta Online Equity Rubric, version 2.0 (pdf)

Peralta Community College District. (2019). Peralta Online Equity Rubric, version 2.0 (pdf) From: https://web.peralta.edu/de/files/2019/05/Peralta-Online-Equity-Rubric-2.0-May-2019.pdf

The Peralta Equity Rubric is a research-based course (re)design evaluation instrument to help teachers make online course experiences more equitable for all students. The rubric’s criteria include: addressing students’ access to technology and different types of support (both academic and non-academic); increasing the visibility of the instructor’s commitment to inclusion; addressing common forms of bias (e.g., implicit bias, image and representation bias, interaction bias); helping students make connections (e.g., between course topics and their lives; with the other students); and following universal design for learning principles

Peralta Online Equity Rubric, version 3.0 (pdf)

Peralta Community College District. (2020). Peralta Online Equity Rubric, version 3.0 (pdf) From: https://web.peralta.edu/de/files/2020/10/Peralta-Online-Equity-Rubric-3.0-Oct-2020.pdf

SUNY Sustainability Overview

SUNY OER Services and rpk GROUP. (2019). SUNY Sustainability Overview. From: https://oer.suny.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/rpkgroup_SUNY_OER-Sustainability-Overview6.pdf

SUNY (State University of New York) recognized that sustainability planning should occur at the beginning of OER program planning, not as a final consideration. As a result, all participating SUNY institutions are required to develop OER sustainability plans.