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Building Better Rubrics: Empowering Learners Through Effective Rubric Design

Catlin Tucker

Why should teachers use rubrics to assess student work? Rubrics are valuable assessment tools that provide clear and transparent expectations about what constitutes quality work. Rubrics identify specific criteria relevant to the assignment, along with corresponding levels of performance that allow for more precise grading.

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6 Digital tools that help teachers create effective rubrics

Neo LMS

A solution comes from rubrics, which are benchmarks used in grading to help assess students’ learning. Rubrics include the criteria for evaluation and the level of performance with descriptions for each. Also, rubrics help teachers provide objective feedback to students , facilitating the desired outcome, which is deep learning.

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Formative Assessment is Key to Being Responsive

Catlin Tucker

Observation Paired with a Simple Rubric: Assessing students’ performance or behavior using a simple standards-aligned, mastery-based rubric during classroom activities provides a clear strategy for teachers to provide students with transparent and clear feedback on their areas of strength and those needing improvement.

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The Power of Rubrics—Students Take Control of Their Own Learning and Achievement

EdNews Daily

Summary: Patti West-Smith, an expert in pedagogy from Turnitin, explains that with a bit of up-front guidance, rubrics help students become self-directed learners who see exactly how to improve before turning in their paper or assignment. However, thanks to the rubric her professor used, Rachel knew the exact areas that caused her trouble.

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Tips, Tools and Resources for Awesome Student Video Projects

Teacher Reboot Camp

In my books find lesson plans, handouts and rubrics for creating video projects. Students enjoy producing their own videos. This year make a goal of motivating students to share their knowledge through a video project. Below is a free slide presentation with ideas. Fun Video Project! App Inventions.

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Ask Yourself, Why Am I Grading This?

Catlin Tucker

Assessments and finished products need a grade, but many teachers either grade holistically so students are unsure why they received the grade they got or they use monster rubrics composed of so many criteria that grading a finished product takes weeks. Use a simple rubric and select 2-3 specific skills to grade.

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Sharing Tools for Measuring Impactful Technology Use

Digital Promise

New rubric guides classroom technology use. To help teachers participating in the DLP reflect on their progress in impactful use of technology, DLP researchers and practitioners developed an Impactful Technology Use (ITU) Rubric and associated survey questions. The rubric includes a total of six indicators of impactful technology use.