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CONCEPT OF RUBRICS

Deepu Krishnan R

BEd Mathematics

Mount Tabor Pathanapuram

Concept of RubricsA Rubric is simply a scoring guide for evaluating students work. A rubric list the important criteria on which a product or a performance will be judged and specifies the levels of qualities for each of those criteria as the educational community has become increasingly interested in the use of assessment to support the learning process rubric have become instrumental in informing students about “What count” in completing particular task. Rubric clarifies learning goals and supports them in making choice and decisions with respect o improving the quality of their work. When students are asked to demonstrate their ability to carry out a particular skill or to create a certain product teachers have expectations of quality they use to asses that work. In some case

Whether holistic or anytical, rubrics should.

Contain the essential criteria (traits qualities descriptors) by which a product or a performance is judged.

Described clearly observable feature of the product or performance that focus. As much as possible, on what the student response demonstrate, rather than what is missing.

Using the descriptive rather than the comparative language to make distinction.

Clearly differentiate levels of containing parallel criteria or descriptions.

Based on wide range of example or work samples so that all potential product or performance, for a particular group of students would fit within the rubric these expectations are shared the students but at times, student are not clearly what is expected of them rubrics make explicit of students teachers and performance will be judged rubric can provide a frame work for teachers to evaluate the complex skills. Products and performance against a standard of mastery not just to compare students. When the criteria are accurately delineated, a rubric has the capability of providing a fair reliable and valid method of measurement of course the rabidity and validity of the tool depends very much on how well the importance criteria and then differentiate between the levels of performance that could be expected from a particular group of student along those criteria.

The power of analytical rubrics that provides detailed information to student’s strengths and areas for improvements.

Focus on the purpose and impact of the work in addition to content and appearance.

For teachers, the habit of using a well constructed rubric is numerous. A good scoring rubric;

Help teachers define excellence and plan instruction so students can achieve it

Align curriculum objectives and evaluation

Assists teachers in being accurate fair and consistent with scoring.

Reduces the time teachers spend assessing student’s worth.

Can promote consistent expectations between and among teachers in school, at a particular grade level and/or with in a department.

Documents the procedures used and decisions made with respect to evaluating students work.

For students, a well constructed Rubrics:

Clarifies teacher’s expectations.

Support the process of self and peer assessment.

Provide the students with focused feedback about how to improve performance.

Finally there is also benefit for parents for rubrics:

Clearly communicates teacher’s expectations.

Provides a more objective assessment of student’s performance.

Supports parent’s understanding of significant curricular objectives

Focuses discussions with teachers on student work rather than on the teacher’s decisions.

Rubrics can support the teaching and learning process when we ask students to complete any kind of performance assessment such as:

Writing assessment

1.Stories

2.Paragraphs

3.Plays

4.Poems

5.Essays

6.Research paper

Demonstration (live or taped)

1.Role playing

2.Relating

3.Debates

4.Experiments

5.Reading

6.Cooperative group work

7.Recital

8.Performing station (mathematics or science)

Presentation (live or taped)

1.Oral-songs

2.Choral speech

3.Visual slide show

4.Dance

5.Science fair

6.Project

7.Seminar

8.Portfolios

Steps in developing a Rubric:

Look at the models of the performance or product:

Along with your students, examine examples of students work at the grade level. Conceders the characteristic that distinguish “good” work from the other sample provide.

Establish the criteria:

The criteria to be used in assessing the performance or product should emerge out of the discussion of the models. It is the characteristics evident in the exemplary work that will became the criteria.

1.Determine the number of levels in the rubric

2.Develop descriptions of quality for each level of the criteria.

3.Practice using the rubric.

4.Revise the rubric as necessary.

Use of rubric in grading

If necessary, there are a number of different ways that rubrics can be used in the grading process. At the elementary school levels, If you have a limited number of report land categories you can use those categories to describes the levels of performance. There are two advantages to this approach. It simplifies the process of translating rubrics scores on to the reporting documents and it support student and parents understand about the meaning of those indicators for example. The rubrics that follow corresponds with the report land indicator independent, development

(developing), beginning

Maths problem solving rubric

Criteria Independent Developing Beginning

Understanding the problem

I get the right answer to the problem and can work it out with no mistakes. I use maths words correctly

I understand how to solve the problem, but I may make mistakes.

I try to do the problem but I don’t understand it.

Knowing how to solve the problem

I can show more than one way to solve the problem

I show most of how I solve the problem

I show some of how I solve the problem

Explain what you did

I can explain exactly what I did to solve the problem and why I solved it that way

I can explain what I did to solve the problem

I can explain some of what I did to solve the problem

Un-weighted Rubrics

If you are teaching at a level where you must provide numerical grade, you can use a mathematical formulae to arrive at a score number of criteria × number of levels = total possible scores. To calculate an individual score, you add up the points a student received.

Weighted Rubrics

A rubric can also be weighted .Weighted rubrics are used to explicit demonstrate to students and parents which take precedence over others. This emphasis can occur over the course of an entire term or year, or at different points in the year as one concept or another is highlighted.

So if you determined that mathematical and tragic knowledge are twice as significant in scoring problem solving, you can weight them that way. Thus the rubric remains the same, but the scoring is different. A

weighted rubric might move a student up or down a specific achievement level or bumps

Reference

Web resources:

1.www.uncw.edu.au/-file/data/asses

2.www.uncw/cte/et/articles/vol17-1/ wolf.pdf

3.www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/org