Transcript Why Rubrics?

Rubrics
Jennifer Griffin
Elementary Schools Instructional Coach
Hickory Public Schools
Think-Pair-Share
• What topics in your curriculum lend
them selves well to rubric evaluation?
• What questions do you have about
writing and implementing the use of
rubrics with your students?
An Activity
• Each person was assigned a chocolate chip
cookie
• The cookies will be judged based
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Number of chocolate chips
Texture
Color
Taste
Richness (flavor)
Cookies
• There are 4 different cookies to be
evaluated at your table.
• Work as a group to assign a score to
your cookie using the rubric given.
• One “taster” per cookie, please.
• Highlight the block that corresponds
to your assessment of your cookie.
Good Cookie Rubric
Delicious
Good
Needs
Improvement
Number of Chips
Chocolate chip in
every bite
Chips in about
75% of bites
Texture
Chewy
Chewy in middle,
crisp on
edges
Texture either
crispy/crunchy
or 50%
uncooked
Color
Golden Brown
Either light from
overcooking
or light from
being 25%
raw
Either dark brown
from
overcooking of
light from
undercooking
Taste
Home-baked taste
Quality storebought taste
Tasteless
Richness
Rich, creamy,
high-fat,
flavor
Medium fat
contents
Low-fat contents
Chocolate in 50%
of bites
Poor
Too few or too
many chips
Texture
resembles a
dog biscuit
Burned
Store-bought
flavor,
preservative
aftertaste stale, hard,
chalky
Nonfat contents
Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Was there agreement in applying the
rubric?
• How does use of a rubric compare to
other ways to score the cookies?
• Questions or comments?
A rubric is a scoring guide that seeks
to evaluate a student’s performance
based on the sum of a full range of
criteria rather than a single
numerical score.
A rubric is a scoring guide for
students and teachers, usually
handed out before an assignment
begins in order to get students to
think about the criteria on which
their work will be judged.
Rubrics enhance the quality of direct
instruction
Why Rubrics?
• Create clear targets for students
• Clarifies important aspects of the
curriculum
• Provides focus, emphasis and attention to
particular parts of curriculum
• Students have explicit guidelines
regarding teacher expectations
Why Rubrics?
• Helps students to become better
evaluators of their own work
• Provides helpful information to the
teacher about direct instruction
• Accommodate a range of learning styles
• Reduces amount of time scoring student
work
Parts of a Rubric
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Title
Criteria to be evaluated
Some sort of scoring plan
Descriptions of each level
Activity
Examine the rubric samples at your table
group
And/or
Use the blank rubric grid to practice writing
a rubric on a topic of your choice. Work
alone, in pairs, or as a group.
Debrief
• What will you take away from the
examples?
• What challenges did you face as you
tried to write a rubric?
Going Forward
• Support from Instructional Coaches
as you implement use of rubrics in
the classroom
• List of automatic Rubric Generators
for your use
Thank You
Please complete a Ticket Out the Door.
I appreciate your
comments/suggestions!
Rubric Generators
• http://www.teachnology.com/web_tools/rubrics/
• http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
• http://myt4l.com/index.php?v=pl&page_ac
=view&type=tools&tool=rubricmaker
Resources
(2009). The Advantages of Rubrics. Retrieved April 17, 2009,
from Teacher Vision Web site:
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/teaching-methods-andmanagement/rubrics/4522.html
(2009). Assessment Rubrics. Retrieved April 17, 2009, from
edtech Web site:
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/intech/rubrics.htm
(2009). Rubrics: The Answer to "Why did you give me this
grade?". Retrieved April 17, 2009, from Transforming
Teaching Through Technology Web site:
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/Rubrics/Rubr
ics.html