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Checklists and Rubrics

• Assessment Tools
• Give students the opportunity to understand expectations for being successful

Into this….

• "can do–can't do" and "done–not done”
• Less informative than rubrics

• to record observed performance
• for self-assessment
• to keep track of progress over time
• to help students fulfill task requirements

Easy to construct and use

Align closely with tasks

Effective for self and peer assessment

Self-monitor progress

Useful for sharing information

Disadvantages

Provide limited information

Don’t indicate quality

• Identify
• parts of a specific task
• other requirements associated with it
• Create
• columns for tasks
• areas for marking yes and no; or check boxes

• Create during the planning process
• Share with students with the initial assignment

• PBL Checklists ~ keeps students on track and allows them to take responsibility for their own learning through peer- and self-evaluation
• CARLA’s Virtual Assessment Center ~ research and discussion on using checklists and rubrics as part of the evaluation process
• The Essentials of Language Teaching ~ discusses alternative assessment
• Self Assessment Checklists for Teachers ~ from Scholastic.com

• A scoring tool that lays out the specific expectations for an assignment, providing a detailed description of what constitutes acceptable or unacceptable levels of performance. (Stevens & Levi, 2005).

• Assists teachers in explaining grades
• Students understand the evaluation process
• Helps with explanation of expectations
• Clearly defines what a good product is
• Makes the grading process consistent and fair
• Helps students evaluate their own and each other’s work

increase the quality instruction

reuse rubrics for various activities

Students have:

explicit guidelines for expectations

a tool to develop their abilities

**Create rubrics

along with the planning process**

• Determine the concepts to be taught.
• Choose the criteria to be evaluated; Name the evidence to be produced
• Develop a grid
• Place the concepts and criteria

Analytic vs. Holistic Rubrics

• Analytic rubrics identify and assess components of a finished product
• Holistic rubrics assess student work as a whole

• Following directions
• Understanding of material
• Proper references to texts, other resources
• Organization
• Quality of data
• Grammar and mechanics
• Writing style
• Creativity

• Two to five point scale for components

5 Top quality; original thinking

4 Good quality; some original thinking

3 Acceptable quality; not much original thinking

2 Questionable quality; not much thinking

1 Turned in on time

• Exemplary, proficient, marginal, unacceptable
• Advanced, intermediate high, intermediate, novice
• Distinguished, proficient, intermediate, novice
• Accomplished, average, developing, beginning
• Outstanding, very good, good, poor, unsatisfactory
• A, B, C, D, F
• Satisfactory, unsatisfactory

• Rubistar ~ a free tool to help teachers make rubrics
• Teach-nology ~ allow teachers to make grading rubrics by filling out forms
• Recipes4Success ~ create your own customized rubrics based on common classroom learning goals
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators ~ an excellent resource for assessment and rubric information
• Tips for Choosing Rubrics ~ from Chicago Public Schools