Creating Effective Rubrics Using Online Tools LearnIt Conference, 2012

1. Creating Effective Rubrics Using Online ToolsLearnIt Conference, 2012 Cynthia Campbell, PhD Dept. of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment Northern Illinois University

2. What is a Rubric? A systematic approach for scoring student work consistently Provides “rules” for evaluating quality

3. Rubrics: Why Use Them? Improves student performance by making expectations clear Communicates the “what” and “how” Encourages student metacognition Reduces teachers’ scoring time Increases scoring consistency (when well designed) Decreases “scoring drift” and scoring bias Leads to fair assessment for ALL students

4. Scoring Constructed Response Holistic scoring – focuses on the overall content Analytic scoring – specific point allocation

5. Developing a Scoring Rubric Step 1: “Unpack” critical knowledge and skills (refer to objectives that assessment is aligned) Step 2: List Criteria (in first column) Step 3: Define Criteria (in second column)

6. Identify and define criteria for assessing students’ ability to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich

7. PBJ Rubric

8. Developing a Scoring Rubric • Step 4: • Determine points and weight for each criteria • Step 5: • vividly describe performance expectation across point levels

9. PBJ Rubric

10. RubiStar • A free online site to assist in creating rubrics • Intended for teachers who want to use rubrics, but do not have time to develop them from scratch.

11. Benefits • Build on content specific templates • Create original rubrics • Customizable • Examine existing teacher created rubrics • Store your classroom rubrics • Interactive design

12. New User Registration http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

13. Design a Rubric to Assess a Written Report