Radical Rubrics
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Rubrics are tools for teachers AND students
Well designed rubrics are used to:
- diagnose strengths and areas of improvement
- provide feedback that guides students in revision of their work
- help students to develop their understanding of quality, self-assess, and set goals
Effective rubrics promote RADICAL changes in student performance!
Steps to Create a RADICAL Rubric
Review project steps and instructions
Align to the standard
Determine critical learning targets
Identify rubric criterion
Create indicators of quality
Allocate point values
Language, language, language
Common Core Rubric Creation Tool
http://www.essaytagger.com/commoncore
Pros:
- starter tool to ensure grade level and writing mode alignment to the standards
- allows selection of specific learning targets within the standard for rubric criterion
- indicates if rubric criterion should be assessed on a sentence, paragraph, or whole document level
Cons:
- does not provide indicators for rubric criterion
- language is not student friendly
- visual representation is not...radical
Best used for...
Brainstorming rubric criterion and focusing your grading practices
Performance Level Descriptors
http://www.azed.gov/assessment/azmeritsupportmaterials/
Pros:
- describes what proficiency looks like at each level of a specific standard
- ready made indicators that can copied and pasted directly into a rubric
Cons:
- does not address all AZCCRS (only those assessed on the AzMERIT test)
Best used for...
Developing indicators for standard specific rubric criterion (simply copy and paste) and those who teach math
Common Core Writing Rubrics
http://blogs.egusd.net/ccss/educators/ela/rubrics-k-12/
Pros:
- ready made standard aligned rubrics for all grade levels and writing modes
- clear indicators for each level of proficiency
Cons:
- requires registration to remove watermark from rubric
- indicators are clear, but not converted to student friendly language
- Literacy specific, no math available
Best used for...
Starter templates for anyone new to common core
Kathy Schrock's Rubric Resource Bank
A plethora of rubrics for common core, content standard, holistic, analytical, web 2.0 tools, digital presentations, any rubric for any assignment imaginable!
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