Get started with rubrics — from thecreativeeducator.com by Melinda Kolk
Make assessment a classroom conversation
Excerpt:
A rubric is an assessment tool that clearly outlines expectations for student work. A rubric describes which performances will be assessed and specifies the criteria for assessing them. Rubrics can be used throughout the process of student work, making them useful for project-based learning implementations.
Because rubrics describe what high performance looks like, they are great tools to help students gauge their work and provide an opportunity for conversation between students and teachers about high-quality work.
Creating a rubric for the final product and various components of project work can ensure a more accurate, specific, and useful assessment.
A rubric is an authentic assessment tool that:
- Provides clear expectations for a project.
- Considers the product as well as the entire project-building process.
- Enumerates the performances on which students will be evaluated.
- Explains what constitutes excellence for each performance.
- Helps students understand what they need to do to excel.
- Prevents subjectivity and bias during the evaluation process.
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From DSC:
Rubrics need to be very carefully designed/constructed though; otherwise rubrics can spoon-feed students the answers in an age where problem solving capabilities are really needed.