RubricsRubricsRubricsRubricsJennifer GriffinJennifer Griffin

Elementary Schools Instructional CoachElementary Schools Instructional Coach

Hickory Public SchoolsHickory Public Schools

Think-Pair-Share• What topics in your curriculum

lend them selves well to rubric evaluation?

• What questions do you have about writing and implementing the use of rubrics with your students?

An Activity • Each person was assigned a chocolate

chip cookie• The cookies will be judged based

– Number of chocolate chips– Texture– Color– Taste– Richness (flavor)

Cookies• There are 4 different cookies to be

evaluated at your table.• Work as a group to assign a score to

your cookie using the rubric given.• One “taster” per cookie, please.• Highlight the block that corresponds

to your assessment of your cookie.

Good Cookie RubricDelicious Good Needs

ImprovementPoor

Number of Chips Chocolate chip in every bite

Chips in about 75% of bites

Chocolate in 50% of bites

Too few or too many chips

Texture Chewy Chewy in middle, crisp on edges

Texture either crispy/crunchy

or 50% uncooked

Texture resembles a dog biscuit

Color Golden Brown Either light from overcooking or light from being 25%

raw

Either dark brown from

overcooking of light from

undercooking

Burned

Taste Home-baked taste Quality store-bought taste

Tasteless Store-bought flavor,

preservative aftertaste - stale, hard,

chalky

Richness Rich, creamy, high-fat,

flavor

Medium fat contents

Low-fat contents Nonfat contents

Chocolate Chip Cookies• Was there agreement in applying

the rubric?• How does use of a rubric compare

to other ways to score the cookies?

• Questions or comments?

A rubric is a scoring guide that seeks to evaluate a student’s

performance based on the sum of a full range of criteria rather than

a single numerical score.

A rubric is a scoring guide for students and teachers, usually

handed out before an assignment begins in order to get students to think about the criteria on which

their work will be judged.

Rubrics enhance the quality of direct instruction

Why Rubrics?• Create clear targets for students• Clarifies important aspects of the

curriculum• Provides focus, emphasis and attention

to particular parts of curriculum• Students have explicit guidelines

regarding teacher expectations

Why Rubrics?• Helps students to become better

evaluators of their own work• Provides helpful information to the

teacher about direct instruction• Accommodate a range of learning

styles• Reduces amount of time scoring

student work

Parts of a Rubric• Title• Criteria to be evaluated• Some sort of scoring plan• Descriptions of each level

ActivityExamine the rubric samples at your table

group

And/or

Use the blank rubric grid to practice writing a rubric on a topic of your choice. Work alone, in pairs, or as a group.

Debrief• What will you take away from the

examples?• What challenges did you face as

you tried to write a rubric?

Going Forward• Support from Instructional

Coaches as you implement use of rubrics in the classroom

• List of automatic Rubric Generators for your use

Thank You

Please complete a Ticket Out the Door. I appreciate your

comments/suggestions!

Rubric Generators• http://www.teach-nology.com/

web_tools/rubrics/

• http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

• http://myt4l.com/index.php?v=pl&page_ac=view&type=tools&tool=rubricmaker

Resources(2009). The Advantages of Rubrics. Retrieved April 17,

2009, from Teacher Vision Web site: http://www.teachervision.fen.com/teaching-methods-and-management/rubrics/4522.html

(2009). Assessment Rubrics. Retrieved April 17, 2009, from edtech Web site: http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/intech/rubrics.htm

(2009). Rubrics: The Answer to "Why did you give me this grade?". Retrieved April 17, 2009, from Transforming Teaching Through Technology Web site: http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/Rubrics/Rubrics.html