Uses, Notes, Tips Do you know how to use a rubric? This is the last part in the series. Here you can read all about best practices. At first sight, it would seem that using rubrics to assess your students is the optimal way to truly understand what your students know and can do. However, there are several caveats to using rubrics in your classroom. Over time, you will see that the process of…

Terminology, Definitions, and Descriptors — Do you know how to label and describe the different parts of a rubric? Read this article to become an expert at evaluating rubrics! While Rubrics: What are they Part 2 dealt with describing the different types of rubrics, and what different types of rubrics could be used for, Part…

Types of Rubrics — What’s the difference between a criteria for correctness, holistic rubrics, or an analytic rubric? After this article, you will be an expert in different types of rubrics. If you read Rubrics: What are they? Part 1, rubrics are most often used to scale ability. This brings us to a question of how to design rubrics. There are several different rubric designs, ranging from simple to complex. …

Knowledge and Ability — Do you really know what a rubric is? A four part series that will make you an expert in rubric design — or at least sound like one. When I do teacher training and we get to the section about assessment, my trainees almost always ask about rubrics. This question is usually a general request for tips and tricks for designing good rubrics. But I find that they actually don’t know what a rubric is and when one…