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Know Your Terms: Holistic, Analytic, and Single-Point Rubrics

…didactic and useful. After reading some quite dense posts on rubrics, I’ve enjoyed this a lot. You have now convinced me to use rubrics! THANK YOU Jenny and CONGRATS!!! Maruzzela Beltran SINGLE-POINT rubrics Amanda I have not seen or heard of single point rubrics. I’m really excited to try that out. Less wordy and easier for students to see what is expected of them and get meaningful feedback. Sariah Pearson Oooh! I never thought I’d like a post on rubrics, but this was awesome! Thanks for your great explanations. I’m currently working my way through your Teacher’s Guide to Tech/Jumpstart…

Meet the Single Point Rubric

…wholly focusing their attention on what I want them to strive for and attain. I love the open-ended areas provided to comment on areas of concern and areas where a child has excelled. Using regular rubrics, I find that often I am trying to jam in comments regarding a student’s’ performance that are not outlined in my rigid prescribed rubrics; the single point rubrics provides me with open-ended areas to comment on these clearly and without limiting by thoughts to items only described in the rubrics. The single point rubrics is definitely a tool that I will be implementing in…

Episode 117: Rubric Repair

…interest in rubrics? WISE: Well who isn’t interested in rubrics, first of all? GONZALEZ: Yeah. WISE: Second of all, I’ve been an administrator for the last 20 years in West Windsor-Plainsboro New Jersey, and started out as the social studies supervisor and now I work with grades six through 12, new teachers, and really trying to help them in their professional development and help them grow as educators. So I work across disciplines now, which I really, really enjoy. And when it comes to rubrics it’s one of those things where I used them when I was a teacher, I…

Rubric Repair: 5 Changes that Get Results

…good sharing. Often, we misunderstood and misused the rubrics. This has somehow opened my views on how to come out with good reflective meaningful rubrics. Pedagogy & Pugs Thanks for sharing these wonderful tips! I’ve been engaging in dialogue regarding verbiage used in rubrics and am curious what the recommendations (and ideally research-based practices) are for using the second person in rubrics (e.g., Your response was on topic and well-supported with details and examples from our lecture). This could be considered student-centered, but the counterargument is that “Your” could provoke defensive reactions to grading. Looking forward to [your] thoughts! 🙂…

Episode 175 Transcript

The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast, Episode 175 Jennifer Gonzalez, host GONZALEZ: I’ve always believed in the power of a good, clear rubric for helping students understand how their work will be assessed. As an English teacher, I can’t even imagine assigning a writing task without a rubric. But all rubrics are not the same: Some can be convoluted messes that overwhelm students, while others can be far too vague to really be helpful. Ideally, all teachers would use the most effective rubrics all the time, but we’re not quite there yet. On my site, I’ve explored lots of rubric tweaks…

Introducing the HyperRubric: A Tool that Takes Learning to the Next Level

Photo by Gabriel Izgi on Unsplash Listen to the interview with Tyler Rablin and Jeffery Frieden (transcript): Sponsored by Listenwise and ISTE I’ve always believed in the power of a good, clear rubric for helping students understand how their work will be assessed. As an English teacher, I can’t even imagine assigning a writing task without a rubric. But all rubrics are not the same: Some can be convoluted messes that overwhelm students, while others can be far too vague to really be helpful. Ideally, all teachers would use the most effective rubrics all the time, but we’re not quite…

How to Turn Rubric Scores into Grades

…does it differ from a language-based assignment? Michael Eppolito First, I love your blog. I have been using rudimentary forms of single point rubrics for years now. In my old rubrics I gave more space to the points that to the feedback. I have now shifted that. I did not get exposed to this format until I left the classroom. Now that I am working as a Professional Learning Coordinator I have been both using this to give feedback to teachers on their curriculum work and have been pushing it as the format we should use for rubrics district wide….

Summer 2014 Book Study: Understanding by Design

…come directly from our goals. * For performance assessments, we need to develop rubrics that clearly outline our criteria. (To learn more about the different types of rubrics and download free templates, see our article on holistic, analytic, and single-point rubrics). We are urged to refine these rubrics over time, after examining student work that demonstrates the desired understandings and getting a clearer sense of what that understanding really looks like. * It is crucial that we check our assessments for validity by asking two key questions: (1) Could a student do well on this task, but really not demonstrate the understandings you…

Speed Up Grading with Rubric Codes

Do you have a mountain of student writing to grade? A pile of extended responses that have been sitting in your passenger seat for a week? Do you wish you had more time to give students better feedback? This video shows you how to use rubric codes—a small twist on grading student writing that keeps the feedback but cuts way down on the time. If you’re getting way behind on your grading, this may be just what you need. Need Ready-Made Rubrics? My Rubric Pack gives you four different designs in Microsoft Word and Google Docs formats. It…