CREATING USEFUL SCORING GUIDE

ASSESSMENT SCORING IS DISCUSSED IN WORD RUBRIC Rubric is a scoring guide containing the criteria used to evaluate a students performance in a particular task. Criteria are used to help define quality for the student, and facilitate the job of assessing for the teacher. Scope of presentation: a. b. c. d. The advs. and disadvs. Of rubric. Different formats for rubric. How a rubric designed. How a rubric themselves be assessed.

A. Advs. and Disadvs. Positives a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. j. Saves time during grading Defines quality work Justifies grades to parent Removes subjectivity Provides formative feedback Informs instruction Prepares students for summative evaluations Applies to multiple tasks Defines expectations up front to parents and students Involves students in creating the criteria for their tasks

Negatives a. b. c. d. Requires up-front planning time Needs revision frequently Requires parent education Requires a plan for transfer to report card grades

B. Formats for rubrics 1. General or task specific? General: can be used in many tasks Specific: can only be used in one/particular task, ex: assessing lab practice step by step Most teachers will perceive the general one is more useful since it can be used repeatedly and save more time for teacher. 2. Holistic or analytical? Both generalized and task specific will fall into holistic or analytical categories. Holistic: used for summative purposes or large scale assessment or to assess students work as a whole Typically a writing tests are using this category, when all the work done, one score will be given for the work Analytical: used separately to each of the key criteria of the students work, it assigns/gives separate points for each quality description for each criterion, so this one is more specific than previous one. Compared with the holistic, it takes more time to create but can reduce grading time in the end if constructed correctly and provides more specific feedback for students What if we dont need to grade? The alternative is a Checklist instead of rubric. A checklist has NO point conversion or point scale. C. Designing a Rubric. How? Main Criteria in constructing a high quality rubric a. Reflect the skills and content taught clearly. Criteria and b. Emphasize significant knowledge and important concepts c. Adequately Differentiate between superior(high level), adequate(standard, medium), and substandard(low level) work d. Provide feedback to improving learning and understanding. e. Designate the most important qualities via the distribution of points. f. Translated into grades clearly