RubiStar Home. Rubrics and Rubric Makers. As we all know grading is the most necessary procedures of our career. It might just be me, but grading is the bane of my existence. Do you feel the same way? Grading large works, especially towards the end of the school year, feels like it is an endless and mindless process. I remember a few years back when I helped grade over 4,000 essays from a neighboring school district. The only thing I can relate the feeling of completing that grading session was giving birth to my daughter. When you grade large works of any kind it is very difficult for even the most competent people to remain 100% objective. We are human and have limits.
Not only do rubrics lead to better equality in assessment, but it gives you standard that will help you understand exactly what you are looking for in the quality of work. Rubrics are essential to grading student assignments effectively. Rubrics make grading quicker, clearer, and more objective. Rubrics By Category Rubric Maker Tools Learn All About Rubrics. Roobrix.com - the Rubric Converter. Rubric Tutorial. Creating a rubric is easy once you have taken to time to evaluate the dimesions/tasks which make up the students performance, and the criterion you will use to evaluate it. That being said, let’s begin with the steps to create a rubric.* The steps to create a rubric are listed in sequential order, however they can be performed in any order as long as the rubric contains the following: -Performance Objective -List of dimensions to be evaluated -Levels of gradation of quality -Criterion and points for each level of quality We have divided the task of creating a grading rubric into 6 steps: 1.
Step 1: Record/write the performance objective. Performance objectives should consist of 3 elements: -- Student Performance -- Conditions -- Criteria The Student performance is the observable behavior that a student will do to demonstrate that the lesson is learned. Below is an example of a performance statement without the criteria. Step 2: Identify the dimensions/tasks comprising the performance. Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything - Home Page.