ASSESSMENT RUBRICS TO SIMPLIFY LIFE!
Clearly stating product expectations before student work is done is a critical part of any program that successfully differentiates through performance assessment and product choices. Product criteria cards facilitate this communication and then play a key role in the development of rubrics that are the next logical step in an effective assessment system. Determining the purpose of the assessment to be done — is it developmental or summative, for example — then dictates the initial direction rubric design will take. Subsequent decisions will address whether the rubric will be holistic or analytic, simple or complex, or task specific versus unit appropriate. Rubrics developed by teachers in classrooms across the country will be shared to jumpstart ideas for session participants who are developing rubrics for their students’ work.
Understanding the effect of a well done rubric on student performance from the setting of goals and expectations to the reduction of final grade negotiations (that can be all too prevalent and time-consuming) promotes a much clearer understanding of the gifted student and, by association, of gifted education.
Objectives:
1. Participants will see how the development of criteria and criteria cards clearly sets student goals and expectations.
2. Participants will be introduced to rubrics as natural outcomes of established
product criteria.
3. Participants will become familiar with a variety of kinds of rubrics.
4. Participants will explore an array of teacher-developed rubrics.
Format:
Lecture interspersed with interactive moments and discussion groups.