I have learned that putting a name to something I have been doing for years can be quite confusing.
Rubrics are judgments by a teacher. What one teacher finds the most important may be a minor component to another. Is it better to do it right or do it neeat? Will a teacher give or take points on how a student came up with the right answer? Rubrics are not something you can just throw together.
Issues when using rubrics can arise from them either not being developed correctly or not being explained correctly. If you can't look at it and see exactly what is expected, then it is ineffective and can cause more harm than good. I do have projects that are Pass/Fail (either it all works or it doesn't work) because that is more indicative of the real life application of the material, but I also use rubrics for evaluating projects where it can be broken down into clear parts.
Rubrics provide for consistant grading.
Student centered peer and self assessment tools help provide the students with benchmarks beofre submitting the final product to the instructor.
Self and peer assessments using a rubric is useful in providing formative assessments to students. This sounds like a very interesting concept that I want to try to incorporate in my courses as some future time. I appreciate the value of using student perspective in the assessment process.
Rubrics should not contain too many criterion or grade a quantitative behavior. It should be based on a certain learning objective rather than on how many times a student makes eye contact or uses a certain term.
In my experience self-assessments and peer-assessments are challenging requests for students, mainly because they do not have the acumen to provide the necessary feedback to succeed in assignments. For peer reviews of rough drafts I always provide an extensive checklist of criteria that I will use to grade students' final drafts. Every semester there is a group of students that go through the motions during the peer reviews, so they are unpleasantly surprised when final drafts are returned to them.
Planning out your rubric is important when creating it so that it is clear and concise.
A rubric is a helpful tool for peer assessment.
Assessments should be planned out proficiently.
How to recognize rubric mistakes to avoid
I have used peer assesment and find it very valuable. It also creates a little compitition between students which is also valuable if controlled and kept to a realistic level.
Rubrics can help students with self and peer evaulation and feedback which in the long run will make the student a better learner.
I think using rubies to allow students to access themselves- is beneficial. I plan to implement in one of my projects in my current class.
Ruberics are a great method for motivation via self assesments and peer assesments.
Enjoyed reading the information on building a rubric. It made me think of ways that I can incorporate this into my class as a scaffolding tool for my students. Itis important too see that that their work as a learning tool and not just another grade
I really like the idea of peer-to-peer assessment. This allows the student to obtain constructive feedback prior to submitting an assignment.
I prefer analyticsl rdubrics for didactic assessment activities and holistic rurbric for clinical assisgments. Depending on the learning outcomes and steps to achieve requried criteria, a series of holistic rubrics can help students with further development of the end product with meeting competency
There are several important things that go into creating a rubric.
