Using Rubrics to Improve Learning
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Using rubrics can improve student learning in three main ways: 1. Rubrics help clarify expectations for assignments by making grading criteria explicit for both teachers and students. 2. Sharing rubrics with students before assignments explains the scope and essential elements, indicating what quality work looks like. 3. Rubrics provide a transparent process for evaluation that can save teachers time grading and increase fairness, while also allowing students to better understand how their work was assessed.
Using Rubrics to Improve Learning
- 1. Using Rubricsto Improve LearningGail Matthews-DeNatale, Ph.D.Associate DeanAdapted from a presentation given to the faculty of Simmons College
- 2. What is a Rubric?An explicit set of criteria used for assessing a particular type of work or performance
- 3. usually includes levels of potential achievement for each criterion
- 4. sometimes also includes work or performance samples that typify each of those levels Source: Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group
- 5. Why are Rubrics Valuable?Helps us (teachers) clarify our often unspoken assumptions about an assignment
- 6. Improves the quality of student work because expectations are explicit
- 7. Provides a transparent and structured process for evaluationExample: Emmanuel Writing Rubric
- 8. When Should I Use a Rubric?Before Beginning an Assignment
- 9. Share with students to
- 10. explain assignment scope and essential elements
- 11. indicate expectations for quality
- 13. Tool to guide comments on drafts, peer feedback, and self assessment
- 14. Reference document students consult outside/between class
- 16. Save time in grading (provides structure and focus)
- 17. Increase the “fairness” in your grading
- 18. Explain rationale to students who question gradesHow Do You Create a Rubric?Determine desired learning outcomes
- 20. Define success, evaluate only measurable criteria
- 21. Divide task into different skills
- 22. Label the levels of performance
- 23. Get feedbackTip:Get a “leg up” by borrowing rubrics from others and adapting them to meet your needshttp://rubistar.4teachers.org