Reflective Journals

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Creating and Implementing Rubrics for Your Courses
Dianne Goldsby, Ph.D. Tammy Raulerson,
M.Ed. Texas AM University
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What are Rubrics?

• Scoring scales developed by teachers or others to
  guide in the analysis of student work, products
  and performances

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Characteristics

• Key elements, traits or dimensions
• Set of criteria
• Levels of competency or achievement
• Holistic, Analytic, Primary Trait
• Valid
• Reliable
• Systematic
• Practical

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Advantages

• Consistency in scoring
• Improved instruction
• Performance criteria specified and known
• Allows self-assessment

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Holistic Rubrics

• Single score rating
• Overall impression
• Examples
• Report with letter grade
• Worksheet with numeric score
• Homework with v , v, v-

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Holistic When?

• Quick snapshot of overall status or achievement
• Simple products or performances
• Speed is more important than describing quality

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Holistic Why Not?

• Same scores for different reasons
• Weak on identification of strengths and
  weaknesses
• Little instructional feedback

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Analytical Rubrics

• Several scores or ratings
• Addresses important dimensions/traits

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Analytical When?

• Planning instruction
• Clear and detailed feedback to parents and
  students
• Quality of product prime concern
• Explicit guidelines regarding expectations
• Addresses multiple traits

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Analytical Why Not?

• Slower scoring
• Time consuming
• Development
• Implementation

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Development of Rubrics

• Where do we start?

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Development of Rubrics

• Decide on the number of levels of performance
  needed
• Describe the standards of performance to use as
  benchmarks
• Use demonstrative verbs that describe observable
  behaviors
• Reflect and revise

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You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime!
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Chocolate Chip Exploration

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

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Example

• Situation - Creating a rubric for observation of
  class activity.
• What are the elements you are interested in
  considering?
• Establish these.
• How many levels?
• What are the key descriptors for each level?
• Decide on points for each element and for each
  level.

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OBSERVATION RUBRIC
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SIGNATURE LAB_MODULE 5 RUBRIC
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In conclusion
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Questions
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Dianne Goldsby, Ph.D. dgoldsby_at_tamu.edu
Teaching, Learning and Culture College of
Education