Rubics (cont.)

I found the Rubistar website to be a great tool to use as a teacher, and I definitely plan on using it for my classroom. Overall, I believe that rubrics are always beneficial and can always assist a student in understanding what it is a teacher is looking for in any given subject or assignment. As a student I’ve always found rubrics to be both a guide and a resource because it gives you insight into the teacher’s mind, what she expects of you, and the grade you are likely to receive if you meet those expectations, so it’s all up to you, the student, whether or not you use this resource. I love this website, plan to use it in my classroom, and would recommend it to any other teacher as passionate about rubrics as I am!

Rubistar

, I found the Rubistar website to be a great tool to use as a teacher, and I definitely plan on using it for my classroom. Overall, I believe that rubrics are always beneficial and can always assist a student in understanding what it is a teacher is looking for in any given subject or assignment. As a student I’ve always found rubrics to be both a guide and a resource because it gives you insight into the teacher’s mind, what she expects of you, and the grade you are likely to receive if you meet those expectations, so it’s all up to you, the student, whether or not you use this resource. The Rubistar website is an amazing tool and I'd recommend it to any teacher who feels as strongly about rubrics as I do!

Rubistar

I found the Rubistar website to be a great tool to use as a teacher, and I definitely plan on using it for my classroom. Overall, I believe that rubrics are always beneficial and can always assist a student in understanding what it is a teacher is looking for in any given subject or assignment. As a student I’ve always found rubrics to be both a guide and a resource because it gives you insight into the teacher’s mind, what she expects of you, and the grade you are likely to receive if you meet those expectations, so it’s all up to you, the student, whether or not you use this resource. The Rubistar website is a really usful tool and I'd recommend it to anyone!

Rubrics

As a student I've always loved teachers you handed out rubrics because they allow you the oppertunity to see what the teacher is looking for and depending on the effort you put into the assignment, the grade you expect to receive. As a teacher I would definitely consider using rubrics as much as possible and where ever possible because you are giving your students a list of what is expected of them, and once you've given them the rubric it's up to them whether or not they're going to use it to further their grade or not.

Right now I'm still a little uncomfortable creating rubrics because I haven't had much experience with it, but hopefully later on today or tomorrow I will be able to view the rubistar website and create a rubric of my own. After creating a few of my own rubrics I think I'll feel more comfortable making them. The things I will probably keep in mind when writing my rubric will be to emphasize the most important content and processes of the learning targets, and for each achievement dimension's score, I will match the emphasis for that achievement dimension into my assessment plan. (Chapter 10 PP)

Fairness in Assessment & Learning Targets

First I want to start with talking about fairness in assessment. The most influential statement I took from this chapter was that assessment should be fair to students from all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrouns, as well as students with disabilities.

As far as learning targets go, I discovered that as a teacher you can assess the same learning targets in several different ways, because there are a number of different learning targets. A general learning target is a statement of an expected learning outcome that is derived from an educational goal. A specific learning target is a clear statement about what students are to achieve at the end of a unit of instruction. And then of course, there are mastery learning targets which are statements of what students can do at the end of instruction. I added these to my blog because I believe that they're important and need to be identified.