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Using Rubrics to Evaluate Assessments. Why a Rubric?. Can teachers describe excellent work? Do teachers agree on what excellent work is? Do teachers have a tool that can be used to evaluate student work and ultimately to gather data to evaluate the effectiveness of their assessments?.
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Why a Rubric? • Can teachers describe excellent work? • Do teachers agree on what excellent work is? • Do teachers have a tool that can be used to evaluate student work and ultimately to gather data to evaluate the effectiveness of their assessments?
What is a Rubric? A rubric is a printed set of scoring guidelines for teachers to evaluate & to give feedback to individual learners and to evaluate groups of student work
Components of a Rubric **variations- excellent, satisfactory, unsatisfactory; or exemplary, proficient, marginal, unacceptable; or sophisticated, competent, not yet competent
Benefits to Teachers • Objective, consistent evaluation tool: • Evaluates individual student work AND • Evaluates grouped student work enabling teachers to gather data to evaluate the effectiveness of assessments
What a Rubric OffersLearners • Roadmap for excellence • Reveals “what counts”, “what is important” • Clear sense of what is to be achieved • Standards of the profession/discipline