Well-constructed rubrics can help both teachers and students understand what good performance looks like. When used formatively, teachers can use a good rubric to diagnose student strengths and needs and to provide descriptive feedback. Students can use rubrics to evaluate and improve samples of anonymous work, provide feedback on the work of a classmate, examine their own work for the features represented in the rubric, and track their own progress over time.
But to function well as formative tools, rubrics must have certain elements. This workshop will explore the features that formative, assessment for learning, rubrics need in order to maximize their impact on student learning. Particular attention will be given to creating rubrics for hard-to-define, and therefore hard-to-assess, complex learning goals for students, such as reasoning, performance skills, and products.
This workshop will help participants:
- Understand the features that rubrics must have to maximize their usefulness as formative tools
- Understand how to build rubrics that have these features
- Understand how to produce student-friendly versions of rubrics so that students are able to self- and peer-assess
- Understand which learning goals are best suited to the use of rubrics as formative tools
- Apply workshop concepts and ideas to rubrics they are currently developing
Who should attend:
- Teachers who have been using assessment for learning ideas in the classroom and want help making their use of rubrics more productive
- Educators who want additional ideas on how to create rubrics to maximize their usefulness as instructional tools
- Teams of educators who are working together to create rubrics to be used formatively across classrooms
Registration fee includes:
- A copy of the book Creating & Recognizing Quality Rubrics for every team member
- A copy of the DVD Designing Performance Assessments for Learning for every team
- Continental breakfast and lunch provided both days
Offerings of this workshop are not currently scheduled.