Research the elements of a RUBRIC

What is a rubric?
Is a tool to define the expectations of a particular assignment with ways to indicate
different levels of effectiveness in meeting those expectations. It is this last aspect,
the gradations of quality, that differentiates a rubric from its simpler counterpart, the
checklist. Even within the category of a rubric, there is lots of variety.

What is the purpose of a rubric?

Rubrics are used from the initiation to the completion of a student project. They
provide a measurement system for specific tasks and are tailored to each project, so
as the projects become more complex, so do the rubrics.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of different types of rubrics?

Advantages:
● Every time you make a rubric, you articulate your educational philosophy; you
indicate where students are, where they can go, and how they will get there.
● Rubrics can encourage students to think critically about their own work and
scores.
● Students who assessed themselves with a rubric as they worked on a reading
comprehension assignment scored higher on a content knowledge quiz
afterward than students who did not use a rubric.
● Rubrics are also helpful tools for teachers because they encourage
“criterion-referenced rather than norm-referenced” scoring.
● Rubrics create a common language to speak about academic work, make the
learning goal clear.
Disadvantages:

One teacher might use a scale of A-F, another might use the scale 1 through 5, and
yet another might choose to use the words excellent, competent, and needs work as
the scale. There is no right answer when it comes to using letters, numbers, or words
for your scale, but there are a few choices that could lead to unproductive rubrics.

Scales quickly become ineffective when there are too many or too few options. For
example, except for very basic assignments, using just a pass/fail scale will not
provide you or your students with very much helpful information.

Elements

The criteria are the assignment expectations: the qualities the final work should
display. The performance level descriptions instantiate those expectations at different
levels of competence. Thus, one firm conclusion from this review is that appropriate
criteria are the key to effective rubrics. A rubric has two parts: criteria that express
what to look for in the work and performance level descriptions that describe what
instantiations of those criteria look like in work at varying quality levels, from low to
high.
Another important way to characterize rubrics is whether they are analytic or holistic.
Analytic rubrics consider criteria one at a time, which means they are better for
feedback to students. Holistic criteria consider all the criteria simultaneously,
requiring only one decision on one scale. This means they are better for grading, for
times when students will not need to use feedback, because making only one
decision is quicker and less cognitively demanding than making several.

Examples of language learning rubric skills

Reflection:

Us as teachers should have to get familiar with rubrics, as they are very helpful for
students and teachers, that way we can evaluate different types of assessments and
be objective, with rubrics we can have a path to almost every work and homeworks.
And students can learn how to make assessments and have a better grade.

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