Rubrics and Checklist Resources
RUBRICS:
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php Free Tool
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html Great site! A lot of everything.
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/ Samples & Generators
http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/ho.html Samples & Resources
http://www.rubrics4teachers.com/ Samples & Resources
http://www.techtrekers.com/rubrics.html OK Samples and Resources
What to Do Once You've Created Rubrics
Creating rubrics is the hard part - using them is relatively easy. Once you've
created a rubric, give copies to students and ask them to assess their own
progress on a task or project. Their assessments should not count toward a
grade. The point is for the rubric to help students learn more and produce
better final products, so including self-assessments in grades is unnecessary
and can compromise students' honesty.
Always give students time to revise their work after assessing themselves, then
have them assess one another's work. Peer-assessment takes some getting used to.
Emphasize the fact that peer-assessment, like self-assessment, is intended to
help everyone do better work. You may also need to hold students accountable for
their assessments of a classmate's work by having them sign off on the rubric
they use. You can then see how fair and accurate their feedback is, and you can
ask for evidence that supports their opinions when their assess-ments don't
match yours. Again, giving time for revision after peer-assessment is crucial.
Parents can use rubrics to help their children with their homework. Finally,
when you assess student work, use the same rubric that was used for self- and
peer-assessment. When you hand the marked rubric back with the students' work,
they'll know what they did well and what they need to work on in the future.
Grading (if you must) is also relatively easy with rubrics. A piece of work that
reflects the highest level of quality for each criterion obviously deserves an
A, one that consistently falls in the lowest level is a D or F,
and so on. Because one piece of work rarely falls in only one level of quality,
many teachers average out the levels of quality, either formally or informally.
Rubrics can also be included in portfolios. However you use them, the idea is to
support and to evaluate student learning. Students, as well as teachers, should
respond to the use of rubrics by thinking, "Yes, this is what I need!"
Checklists: