Evaluation Rubrics
I remember first hearing about rubrics about ten years ago. I’m not sure how, but I missed out on what a rubric was in college. I must have had experience with them, but never connected the name “rubric”. A rubric is basically a tool that can be used to evaluate performance tasks. In today’s 21st century classroom many student tasks are hands on and performance based, and require a rubric type instrument for evaluation. Our module 12 reading says that a performance based assessment requires that students, “apply their knowledge and skills from several areas to demonstrate mastery of the learning objective”. These tasks require such a higher level thinking process than wrote memorization! Gone are the days of using paper and pencil tests alone to evaluate our students!
As I was completing this rubric I drew upon several different resources to assist me. After reading the module, I browsed many websites given as general rubric resources, but especially found Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators helpful. This website seemed to have so much in one place! I liked that it had articles about rubrics, examples, and even rubric generators. I also found our class rubrics, which are used to evaluated our assignments, very helpful as examples.
The rubric I created to evaluate my students’ digital storytelling project can be viewed here: Digital Storytelling Rubric
