Creating Rubrics

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Creating Rubrics
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What is a Rubric?

• A rubric is a criterion based scoring guide
  consisting of a fixed scale (4 points, 6 points,
  or whatever is appropriate)
• Rubrics allow students to know what is expected
  of them rather than giving an arbitrary grade
  without explanation

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Two Types of Rubrics

• Holistic
• Provides an overall impression of a students
  work.
• Yields a single score or rating for a performance

• Analytic
• Divides a product or performance into distinct
  traits and judges each separately.
• Points out specific flaws or strengths for each
  student

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Designing a Rubric

• Include the most important traits
• Ask yourself
• Are you scoring what is easy to score rather than
  what is important?
• Could the students meet all the scoring criteria
  and get high scores without really demonstrating
  the desired understandings or producing excellent
  work?
• Are any of the criteria or reasons arbitrary? In
  other words, are you giving and taking away
  points for characteristics that have little to do
  with excellence at the task?

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Check for consistency..

• If the top score includes the descriptors,
  consistently and thorough, expect to see parallel
  descriptors in the lower score points sometimes
  and incomplete

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Beware of the following

• Scoring the length of the paper instead of its
  quality
• Focusing on mechanics, organization, and
  presentation rather than content, substance, and
  effect
• Looking for quantity rather than results (e.g.
  number of reasons in a persuasive essay instead
  of the logic and reasoning)
• Demanding that the performance follow an
  arbitrary format (5 paragraph essay) although
  successful performance may take a different form.

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A Final Thought . . .

• Rubrics can do something grades alone have never
  accomplished They can define quality. They
  give students the criteria and terminology to
  respond to their own work and others work.
• -Strickland and Strickland (1998)

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