How will you measure what students learn?
Tough question if I take into consideration that I have never used rubrics before. Because I have never heard about them. And I am sure I have attended all the classes.
This was one of the things which has been problematic for me this week. And I am sure I will have to practice it a while in order to be a skilful designer. Even if the task seemed problematic for me I am sure it will help a lot in the classroom. Subjectivity will be lower, my students will have clear objectives to go for and involving them in creating some can definitely help them clarifies their thinking (mine at this point , regarding this topic is still blurry ) .
This can also be the result of the situation that in Romania we use the 1-10 marking scale in assessment and converting the 4 components of a typical rubric in real grades will be a little difficult ,but sure not impossible. Yes, I know, you will say that I could use something similar with”Exemplary “is equivalent to 10. “Qualified “could be 8 or 9. “ “Developing “goes to 6, 7. and “ Beginning “ to 4 or 5 . In our system 4 is failing. There are rare the cases when there are grades of 3, 2 or 1.
Letting this aside, rubric designing seems worth, anyway, for me. Having clear criteria to assess it will prevent me of evaluating holistically. Moreover, it will help focus on one step at a time. More than once I have the tendency to assess more skills at once.
Every cloud has its silver line .
Dear Cami,
ReplyDeleteRemember that you can choose Save As... from the File menu, save the file, then open it from inside Word. Once it's open in Word, you can edit it at will to set the marks the way you wish.
You've made a good start!
Yours,
Deborah