Week 5: Rubrics and Alternative Assessment

During this week we also worked with rubrics and alternative assessment tools.

According to Heidi Andrade, a rubric is a document that articulates the expectations for an assignment by listing the criteria, or what counts, and describing levels of quality from excellent to poor. Rubrics are often used to grade student work but they can serve another, more important, role as well: Rubrics can teach as well as evaluate. When used as part of a formative, student-centered approach to assessment, rubrics have the potential to help students develop understanding and skill, as well as make dependable judgments about the quality of their own work. 

Here's my first rubric, which I created using Rubistar:

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=ShowRubric&rubric_id=2487091&

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