Creating Rubrics – Improving Student Performance

Goal –

Students will develop effective rubrics to assess hard skills in horticulture classroom instruction.

Introduction-

Grading can be one of the most challenging items for teachers. Grading students on hard skills like creating corsages, arrangements, taking cutting and watering greenhouse plants provide teachers an even greater challenge. As the age of accountability grows teachers need to demonstrate some type of a standard for students to meet. Using a grading rubric in these cases can provide both a great way to grade, and provide clear performance standards.

Activities-

Using the links below and completing an Internet search, visit as many rubric websites as you can and review their resources.

Teacher Made Rubrics - http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/

Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Assessment and Teaching Rubrics –

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html

Assessment Rubrics - http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/intech/rubrics.htm

From your research develop a list recommending sites helpful in creating rubrics.

Using your research, create a rubric for a hard skill activity.

Assignments-

1. Review the power point Why Use Grading Rubric. Construct a well-developed statement explaining how rubrics would be useful in your classroom.

2. Develop a list of 5 recommended sites that you think are good resources for creating rubrics. Searches including the words, teacher created rubrics, rubrics for assessment have yielded good results.

3. Create a rubric for a hard skill activity in your classroom. Make sure the activity is action oriented, you will be assessing performance, not using the rubric to evaluate a submitted response from the student.

Submission-

Submit your activities in an html file formant to the hand-in folder designated for this assignment.

Additional Resources-

Using Performance Rubrics to Improve Student Performance - http://www.casciac.org/pdfs/using_rubrics.pdf

Creating Better Student Assessments - http://www.ed.gov/pubs/IASA/newsletters/assess/pt1.html

Scoring for Success - http://www.nwrel.org/nwreport/jan01/scoringforsuccess.html

The Advantage of Rubrics - http://www.teachervision.fen.com/lesson-plans/lesson-4522.html