Lea Ann Robinson

SLM 521

Internet Course Module

Rubrics

Objective: Students will become aware of the various rubric templates and rubric maker sites available online.

Objective: Students will be able to successfully use one of these sites to create a rubric for an assignment.

Introduction: With education becoming more and more standards based, assessments are an increasingly more important part of every lesson. Rubrics are a good way of providing more than just right and wrong answers to questions. They provide an excellent way for students to judge the quality of their work before handing it in. This makes the student more of a participant in the outcome and more likely to strive for higher achievement.

Activity: Visit the following websites to learn more about rubrics and why they are used so often, what the benefits are and even what students think of them.

http://www.okaloosa.k12.fl.us/technology/training/tools/rubrics.htm

http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/assessment/roomforubrics.htm

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/page/4521.html

http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/evalguid.html

http://www.middleweb.com/rubricsHG.html

http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Assessments/Ideas_and_Rubrics/Intro_Scoring/intro_scoring.html

http://kancrn.kckps.k12.ks.us/Harmon/breighm/rubrics.html

http://www.aea267.k12.ia.us/cia/framework/rubrics/

The following sites provide help in creating you own rubrics.

http://landmark-project.com/classweb/tools/rubric_builder.php

http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Assessments/Ideas_and_Rubrics/Rubric_Bank/rubric_bank.html

http://insys.ed.psu.edu/~lin/Rubric/H_rubric.htm

http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/ho.html

Assignment: You will be creating your own rubric to go with one your Web Dropins. Above are links to several web sites with rubric templates and other rubric creating devices. Use one of these or another rubric maker that you choose to create the rubric. There should be at least three levels of quality in the rubric and at least two categories that will be assessed. Remember to keep in mind the grade level of the student that the drop in has been developed for when choosing language for the corresponding rubric. Please put the URL for the web site you used to create your rubric and give the URL for the corresponding Web Dropin.

Submission: Post your rubric as an html file to the McDaniel server, create a link to the file on your index page and send an email to the instructor with a hotlink and the URL to the assignment. You may also chose to include the rubric in the web drop for which it was created.

Rubric:

CATEGORY	unacceptable	developing	accomplished
Levels of Quality	No distinct levels of quality.	Only one level of quality.	Two or more levels of quality.
Categories	No categories.	One category.	Two or more categories.
Content	Does not have a clear connection to the corresponding web drop in.	Has something to do with the web drop but does not fit completely.	Has clear connection to the web drop in and has categories that correspond to expectation of web drop.
Readability	Reading level does not fit that of the web dropin.	Reading level is close to that of the web drop but still uses terminology that is not a good fit.	Shows cognizance of target audience by word choice and descriptive terms used.