Fountas Pinnell. First Day at the Elementary Level: Tips & Advice for Teachers. Quality Rubrics / Home. Introduction: A search for "rubrics" in Google returns over 2 million results while Amazon.com claims over 30,000 educational books that address them in one shape or another. For any educator looking to know more about rubrics and how to use them in his or her classroom, finding a starting point can be challenging and difficult. This wiki was created as a place to address two needs: First, to explore what makes a rubric a "quality rubric" with definitions, examples, and non-examples. Second, to wrestle with some of the issues that come along with them. Definition: There are a variety of explanations as to the origins of the word, ranging from text in Medieval manuscripts inked in red in order to draw attention or highlight the words to annotations in the margin of a religious text.
In education, the definition appears to change dramatically from author to author, website to website. Below is a Wordle created from definitions from 5 different rubric creation sites. Untitled. TEACHER/CLASS_____________________ ROOM #_________________ ATS CODE________________