Documentation:Assessment/Rubrics

What is a rubric?

• A scoring guide that outlines criteria for assessment with different levels or standards of performance.
• Identifies all the needed attributes of quality or development in a process, product or performance and defines different levels for each of these attributes.

Benefits?

• Sets clear expectations – conveys expectations for students work and achievement in ways that students can understand and use
• Links learning outcomes directly to assessment expectations
• Help students meet their goals
  • identifies attributes of exemplary work
  • monitor their own performance and achievement
• Reinforces the importance of using and providing evidence
• Can help teachers justify and validate grades – a transparent process

Drawbacks?

• Do they go far enough?
  • clarity at the expense of description and responsiveness?
• Most criteria are complex, multidimensional
  • may be difficult to articulate
  • often 'tacit' in the mind of the teacher

Samples

Feedback for discussions/blog postings - EDDL 514 Susan De La Paz, Heuristics for Developing Writing Strategies - File:Pages from Heuristics for Developing Writing Strategies.pdf

Illinois State Board of Education, Science Communication

Activity

Individually or in your group (or find those with similar discipline specific interests), create a rubric (on paper, using the following link, or adapt the template provided) that you can use in your practice. Summative Assessment Ideas

Links

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/