1. What Are Rubrics? Rubrics are components of:
Standards-based instruction
Authentic performance based assessment

2. What is Standards-Based?
Must be an agreement about:
Content taught
What students should know
What students should be able to do
The evidence need to show that students have achieved the desired results

3. When to Use Rubrics Need to Use a Rubric Does Not Need a Rubric
Factual Knowledge
Recall
Objective tests
One correct answer
Does Not Need a Rubric
Demonstrate a skill
Inquiry, reasoning
Measure response, product or performance
Open-ended
Subjective
Need to Use a Rubric

4. Why Use a Rubric? Allows easy documentation
Believed to increase the quality of work and learning. Rubrics set clear expectations, they let students focus on the direct tasks.
Allows easy documentation
Provides clear student feedback
Fair non-subjective

5. A Quick Look at Rating Scales
Earlier form of the rubric
Indicate the degree of performance based on a standard
Numerical scale = range
Performance scale = verbal description and checklists
Rubrics are scoring criteria with a rating scale

6. Two Basic Types of Rubrics
Analytic Rubric
Identify and assess various components
Column that lists criteria
Columns that describe quality
Points out strengths and weaknesses
Holistic Rubric
Assess work as a whole
Reveals little about what needs to be improved
Little instructional guidance

7. Analytic vs. Holistic Rubrics Advantages of Holistic Rubrics
Faster and easier to develop and use
Good for complex performances
Quicker scoring
Disadvantages of Holistic Rubrics
hard to use unless self developed
more subjective; open to challenge
does not provide specific feedback

8. Analytic vs. Holistic Rubrics Advantages of Analytic Rubrics
more diagnostic; provides specific feedback
detailed basis for judgments
details provide for better multiple scoring
details for multiple levels with emphasis on same criteria
Disadvantages of Analytic Rubrics
time consuming to construct and use
Can make it “hard to see the forest through the trees”

9. What Are the Steps You Need to Take?
How to Design a Rubric
What Are the Steps You Need to Take?

10. Steps to Designing Rubrics
1st identify the concepts and learning objectives
2nd List the criteria to be evaluated
3rd describe the degree of quality
4th share rubric with students prior to assignment
5th use it, revise it, student feedback, revise, use, revise. Etc.

11. Remember: Designing an Analytic Rubric criteria must:
focus on important aspects of the assignment
Be directly observable
Be understandable to everyone (parents)
Be detailed

12. Using Backward Design Give students criteria for assignment
collect the assignment
Divide work into 4 groups Prof. - - not Prof.
Identify the Major criteria for proficiency
Design your Rubric

13. Lets Get Some Practice Using Backwards design Tasks:
Using the three examples of students work you were given, generate a list of criteria
Rank the work in terms of proficiency