This week's assignment is another continuation of the pass few weeks. We were ask to create a Grading Rubric for our Wiki space where we have been creating a curriculum page and Digital story telling assignment.
After reading the lecture, notes, web pages, I learned much more in the reasoning behind rubrics.
- Rubrics improve student performance by clearly showing the student how their work will be evaluated and what is expected.
- Rubrics help students become better judges of the quality of their own work.
- Rubrics allow assessment to be more objective and consistent.
- Rubrics force the teacher to clarify his/her criteria in specific terms.
- Rubrics reduce the amount of time teachers spend evaluating student work.
- Rubrics promote student awareness about the criteria to use in assessing peer performance.
- Rubrics provide useful feedback to the teacher regarding the effectiveness of the instruction.
- Rubrics provide students with more informative feedback about their strengths and areas in need of improvement.
- Rubrics accommodate heterogeneous classes by offering a range of quality levels.
- Rubrics are easy to use and easy to explain.
Rubrics can be created in a variety of forms and levels of complexity, however, they all contain three common features which:
- focus on measuring a stated objective (performance, behavior, or quality).
- use a range to rate performance.
- contain specific performance characteristics arranged in levels indicating the degree to which a standard has been me.
After learning more about rubrics its now time for me to create one. I did a web search and looked at several rubric makers. I chose to use Rubistar http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
You may view mine at: http://lipkalearningcorner.wikispaces.com/Rubric
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