In an effort to make grading oral assignments more efficient, my team re-imagined the traditional marking process of teachers struggling to keep track of numerous student rubrics, assessment criteria, while marking on the spot.
Teachr is much more than just a digital rubric, but enables teachers to quickly switch between students who are being assessed, provide quick feedback, and a final grade - all on one page.
When conducting group discussions, teachers would have numerous tabs open or paper rubrics in front of them, and would hastily flip between them to mark students in real time. This results in teachers not being able to provide enough attention in real time to engage with students or having a halo effect when marking different criteria sections (Knowledge, Thinking, Communication, Application).
Due to multi-tasking, teachers have to quickly mark multiple students and provide feedback for improvement. However, because they are marking in real time, can only give simple and short notes which may lack enough context for the student.
Teachers, who do some marking in real time but record and re-listen to the whole discussion at a later period give up crucial time as they have the ability to pause and continue - making marking more tedious, and adds on to their big stack of other assignments to mark after hours.