Mod 5 - Single Point Rubrics

Consider how you might use success criteria and single-point rubrics in your
practice.
Record your ideas in your journal.

As stated in the reading, Single Point Rubric: A Tool for Responsible Student Self-Assessment,
single point rubrics (SPR) are a great tool for assessment for learning and assessment as
learning. This is because the primary use of single point rubrics is to deliver feedback to
students on their learning, and bridge the gap between what they already know, and where they
need to be. Single point rubrics use one set of criteria and either feedback on what they need to
do to improve or what they did that exceeded the standard. Since the primary use is feedback,
SPR are a great tool for students to self-assess themselves, or for them to evaluate each other
for feedback. This is why SPR should be used for assessment for learning and of learning.
This also makes it difficult for them to be used to assign a grade for assessment of learning,
because the way a student falls short or exceeds the standard is much more subjective. As
pointed out in the reading, this shifts students’ focus from their grade to their learning. Students
are much more engaged with the rubric since it only contains a single criteria for each category,
and allows them to be creative in how they exceed that criteria.

In regards to writing a SPR, the criteria for each category should be written using the language
and qualifiers that would be found in a level 3 for a typical analytic rubric. The criteria should be
related to and directly use the language of the success criteria for that activity. This creates a
direct link between the assessment and the learning goals. Teachers and students are then
able to see how they are progressing towards the learning goals because the SPR is written
using the success criteria.