Using Rubrics as Feedback Mechanisms for Doctoral Supervisors and Researchers

Peter Grainger (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. He is a prolific publisher of assessment related research, especially around the design and efficacy of rubrics in undergraduate and postgraduate education contexts, including doctoral education. His recent research focuses on feedback literacy of doctoral students and supervisors and the potential of formative assessment criteria-based tools (FACTs) to act as additional feedback mechanisms.Craig Johnston (PhD) is an early career researcher at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. His most recent research focuses on assessment rubrics, particularly the ways in which generative artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to as an alternate formative feedback tool for students.Chahna Gonsalves (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing (Education), at King’s College London, UK, where her research and scholarship focus on assessment and feedback, generative AI, communication, and message impact. Chahna is the Department Education Lead and a Senior Fellow of Advance HE.

• Foreword by Karen CleggChapter 1 Introduction: A need for reform?Peter GraingerChapter 2 Adapting doctoral assessment to the pedagogy of the doctoral journey while maintaining diversityPam DenicoloChapter 3 Reimagining rubrics in doctoral education: From evaluation instruments to tools for teaching, learning, and supervisionHeidi Andrade and Elie ChingYen YuChapter 4 Making connections: a UK perspective on how rubric-specific formative feedback can improve the doctoral researcher experience and outcomesGillian HoustonChapter 5 It’s all about me: Guiding self-reflection of doctoral students to a state of critical beingChristine Edwards-LeisChapter 6 Making the rules visible: Hidden curricula, epistemic validity, and the design of doctoral rubricsChahna GonsalvesChapter 7 Making visible quality standards for theses in higher educationMichele JacobsenChapter 8 Testing a formative feedback rubric as a means of scaffolding and engineering generative AI responses for doctoral candidatesCraig Johnston and Suzanne BarryChapter 9 Evaluating a formative rubric for doctoral education: Insights from the F.A.C.T.Peter Grainger, Christine Edwards-Leis, Joseph Scott, Michael Carey, Melinda DeanChapter 10 Conclusion: Rubrics, doctoral assessment, and the future of doctoratenessAnders Jönsson and Ernesto Panadero

"This superbly edited collection by Grainger, Johnston and Gonsalves is authored by international experts in the field of assessment. Providing a blueprint for change in the way we consider, design and apply rubrics to doctoral education is a much needed and timely contribution to the debate about the modern PhD"- Karen Clegg, Reader in Doctoral Education in the School for Arts and Creative Technologies at the University of York and Co-PI/Director of the Next Generation Research SuperVision Project (RSVP), U.K.