LESSON 4: RUBRIC FOR LESSON UNIT

Learning Outcomes
At the completion of this week, you should be able to:
 Define assessment rubrics
 Explain the purpose of rubrics
 Explain the advantages of rubrics

What is an assessment rubric?

A rubric is an assessment tool used to measure students' work. It 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.

What is the purpose of rubric?

A rubric is a working guide for students and teachers, usually handed out before the assignment
begins in order to get students to think about the criteria on which their work will be judged.
Rubrics can be analytic or holistic, and they can be created for any content area including math,
science, history, writing, foreign languages, drama, art, music, etc.

What's the difference between analytic and holistic rubrics?

Analytical Holistic

Analytic rubrics identify and Holistic rubrics assess student

assess components of a finished work as a whole
product

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What are the advantages of rubrics?

These are several advantages of having rubrics:

 Rubrics improve student performance by clearly showing the student how their work
will be evaluated and what is expected.
 Rubrics help students become better judges of the quality of their own work.
 Rubrics allow assessment to be more objective and consistent.
 Rubrics force the teacher to clarify his/her criteria in specific terms.
 Rubrics reduce the amount of time teachers spend evaluating student work.
 Rubrics promote student awareness about the criteria to use in assessing peer
performance.
 Rubrics provide useful feedback to the teacher regarding the effectiveness of the
instruction.
 Rubrics provide students with more informative feedback about their strengths and
areas in need of improvement.
 Rubrics accommodate heterogeneous classes by offering a range of quality levels.
 Rubrics are easy to use and easy to explain.

Common features of Rubric

Rubrics can be created in a variety of forms and levels of complexity, however, they all contain
three common features which:

 Focus on measuring a stated objective (performance, behavior, or quality).

 Use a range to rate performance.
 contain specific performance characteristics arranged in levels indicating the degree to
which a standard has been met
 Example rubric for lesson unit
This is the example of rubric for lesson plan.

Beginning Developing Accomplished Exemplary

Instruction Instructional goals Instructional goals and Instructional goals Instructional goals
Goals and and objectives are objectives are stated but and objectives are and objectives clearly
Objectives not stated. are not easy to stated. Learners have stated. Learners have
Learners cannot understand. Learners are an understanding of a clear understanding
tell what is given some information what is expected of of what is expected of
expected of them. regarding what is them. Learners can them. Learners can
Learners cannot expected of them. determine what they determine what they
determine what Learners are not given should know and be should know and be
they should know enough information to able to do as a result able to do as a result
and be able to do determine what they of learning and of learning and
as a result of should know and be able instruction. instruction.
learning and to do as a result of
instruction. learning and instruction.
Instructional Instructional Some instructional Most instructional Instructional
Strategies strategies are strategies are appropriate strategies are strategies
missing or for learning outcome(s). appropriate for appropriate for
strategies used are Some strategies are based learning outcome(s). learning outcome(s).
inappropriate. on a combination of Most strategies are Strategy based on a
practical experience, based on a combination of
theory, research and combination of practical experience,
documented best practice. practical experience, theory, research and
theory, research and documented best
documented best practice.
practice.
Assessment Method for Method for assessing Method for assessing Method for assessing
assessing student student learning and student learning and student learning and
learning and evaluating instruction is evaluating evaluating
evaluating vaguely stated. instruction is instruction is clearly
instruction is Assessment is teacher present. Can be delineated and
missing. dependent. readily used for authentic. Can be
expert, peer, and/or readily used for
self-evaluation. expert, peer, and/or
self-evaluation.
Technology Selection and Selection and application Selection and Selection and
Used application of of technologies is application of application of
technologies is beginning to be technologies is technologies is
inappropriate (or appropriate for learning basically appropriate appropriate for
non existant) for environment and for learning learning
learning outcomes. Technologies environment and environment and
environment and applied do not affect outcomes. Some outcomes.
outcomes learning. technologies applied Technologies applied
enhance learning. to enhance learning.
Materials Material list is Some materials necessary Most materials All materials
Needed missing. for student and teacher to necessary for student necessary for student
complete lesson are listed, and teacher to and teacher to
but list is incomplete. complete lesson are complete lesson
listed. clearly listed
Organization Lesson plan is Lesson plan is organized, Lesson plan is Complete package
and unorganized and but not professionally organized and neatly presented in well
Presentation not presented in a presented. presented organized and
neat manner. professional fashion.
 You may visit this website http://www.mark-ed.com/assessment/HowToCreateRubrics.htm for steps
in creating rubrics from scratch for use in your classroom.

REFERENCES

Assessment Rubric. Retrieved April, 2011 from

http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/intech/rubrics.htm#features
How To Create Rubric. Retrieved April, 2011 from http://www.mark-
ed.com/assessment/HowToCreateRubrics.htm