Asiado, Kaye

BEED III - 1

Activity (Chapter 6)
1. In your own words, explain what a scoring rubric is.

- In my own understanding, a rubric is scoring method that lists the

criteria for a piece of work. It is a scoring guide that is used to
evaluate performance and more.

2. Cite the basic parts of a scoring rubric.

- A scoring rubric has two major parts, and these are coherent sets of
criteria and descriptions of levels of performance for criteria.
- A rubric has three parts, these are performance criteria, rating scale
and indicators.

3. Distinguish between holistic and analytic rubrics; general and task-specific

rubric.

- An analytic rubric articulates levels of performance for each criterion

so the teacher can assess student performance on each criterion. In
contrast, a holistic rubric does not list separate levels of performance
for each criterion. Instead, a holistic rubric assigns a level of
performance by assessing performance across multiple criteria as a
whole.
- General rubrics are particularly useful for fundamental skills such as
writing, mathematics problem solving and general traits like
creativity. These general rubrics can be adapted to different grade
levels to make them task-specific rubrics. While a task-specific rubric
is unique to a specific task. However, a task-specific rubric is time
consuming and difficult to create for all the different tasks you’d like
to assess, however, it makes scoring easier.

4. When do you use a holistic rubric? Analytic rubric? General rubric? Task-
specific rubric?

- Holistic rubric tends to be used when a quick or gross judgement

needs to be made. If the assessment is a minor one, such as a brief
homework assignment, it may be sufficient to apply a holistic
judgement to quickly review student work.
- Analytic rubrics are more common because teachers typically want to
assess each criterion separately, particularly for assignments that
involve a larger number of criteria. An analytic rubric better handles
weighting of criteria.
 - General rubrics are particularly useful for fundamental skills such as
writing, mathematics problem solving and general traits like
creativity. They contain criteria that are general across task that’s
why they can be re-used.
- You can use a task specific rubric as a reliable assessment of
performance on a specific task such as “gives an answer” or
“specifies a conclusion”.

5. Why are rubrics important?

- With the scoring rubrics, students and teachers are clarified because
they clarify for students the qualities their work should have. This
point is often expressed in terms of students understanding the
learning target and criteria for success.
- Rubrics help teachers teach. When teachers develop the rubric’s
they get very much clarified with the criteria by which learning will
be assessed and so will become more focused on what to teach and
against what criteria student success will be measured.
- Rubrics help students learn. The criteria performance- level and
descriptions in rubrics help students understand what performance
and criterion of performance are expected of them.
- Rubrics help coordinate instruction and assessment.
- Furthermore rubrics enhance student or learner agency.

6. Other than rubrics, what other tools can be used to assess performance?

- Other than rubrics, a checklists and rating scale can be use to assess
performance. A checklist is a list of specific characteristics with a
place for marking whether that characteristic is present or absent”..
Checklists are used when learning outcomes are defined by the
existence of an attribute. And a rating scale is a “list of specific
characteristics with a place for marking the degree to which each
characteristic is displayed.”