Module#6. Evaluation rubric rough draft

Evaluation Rubric Design – rough draft.

Even though rubrics are hard and time-consuming to design, but rubrics are definitely needed with assessments to assess the performance of students effectively.
Rubrics are scoring guides that teachers and children use to assess achievement on particular writing projects.
Rubrics are used for more reasons as well, which are that make instructor’s expectations clear to the student, show students how to meet the instructor’s expectations, help students evaluate the quality of their own work, and identify the specific elements an instructor uses to differentiate between the qualities of performances.

Rubrics apply elements of primary trait scoring to simplify the assessment and grading of children’s writing.
Rubrics can have 3,4,5 or 6 levels, with descriptors at each level. In most rubrics, the descriptors are related to ideas, organization, language, and mechanics, but they vary to fit the writing project.

Rubrics typically consist of task, criteria, range of performance.

Task: Writing friendly letters to develop relationships with audiences.
Criteria: organization, vocabulary, word choice, sentence, mechanics.
Range of performance:
-Exceptional Writer(14-16pts)
-Developing Writer(11-13pts)
-Beginning Writer(8-10pts)
-Emergent Writer(0-7pts)

Holistic Or Analytic—Which To Use?

HOLISTIC—views product or performance as a whole; describes characteristics of different levels of performance. Criteria are summarized for each score level.
(Holistic Example)
Friendly Letters
Exceptional Writer.(4)
-Organized structure.
-Essentially free of mechanical errors
-Essentially free of punctuation error.
-Clear and appropriate for audience.

Analytic-Separate facets of performance are defined, independently valued, and scored.
Analytic—pros and cons
-Sharper focus on target
-Specific feedback (matrix)
-Instructional emphasis
(Analytic Example)
Exceptional Writer.(4)
Letter has correct form
Number of paragraphs
Envelope included and correct format

There is steps in developing a rubric.
1.Design backwards-rubric first; then product/performance.
2.Decide on the criteria for the product or performance to be assessed.
3. Write a definition or make a list of concrete descriptors-identifiable-for each criterion.
4.Develop a continuum for describing the range of performance for each criterion.
5. Keep track of strengths and weaknesses of rubric as you use it to assess student work.
6. Revise accordingly.
7. Step back; ask yourself “ What didn’t I make clear instructionally? The weakness may not be the rubric.

There is the task of creating a grading rubric of 6 steps
1 ,Record the performance objective
2. Identify the dimensions/tasks comprising the performance
3. Identify the postential gradations of quality
4. Assign a point value to each gradations of quality
5. Identify the criteria for each gradation, and a total point value for the assessment.
6. Create the rubrictable.

The best rubrics are below
1. Analytic and holistic
2. Developmental
3. Generalizable and specific
4. Instructional

Reference
Rubric.ppt
Tompkins, G. (2008). Teaching writing balancing process and product. Library of congress cataloging in publication data, 86-91.
www. School.discoveryeducation.com.