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KNOWING THE
FACTS AND
DOING WELL
ON TESTS OF
KNOWLEDGE
DO NOT MEAN
THAT WE
UNDERSTAND.
Grant Wiggins and Jay
McTighe (1998)
YOU’VE GOT TO GO
BELOW THE SURFACE...
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
TO UNCOVER REALLY ‘BIG IDEAS,
AND DEEPER UNDERSTANDING ’
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
PERFORMANCE TASK
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
What other skills do we want our learners
to acquire?
Observing
Communicating Inferring
Recording Making
Data Basic Models
Proces
s Skills
Measurin Comparing/
g Classifying
Asking Making
Questions Decisions
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
What other skills do we want our learners
to acquire?
Decisio
Problem n
Solving Making
HOTS
Skills
Creative Critical
Thinkin Thinking
g
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT
Authentic because
They require students’ active generation of a response that is observable either directly
real-world situations.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
What are the features of
AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT?
Construction Easy
Incentive to Encourages pupils to learn how to organize their own ideas and express them
pupils effectively
Message Beyond one answer mentality; elicit responses that approximate life skills
What is a RUBRIC?
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
What is a RUBRIC?
It articulates gradations
of quality for each
criterion, from
excellent to poor.
As such, they support
the mandate for
authentic (“real world”)
assessment stated in
national standards
across the curriculum.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
What is a RUBRIC?
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
What is a RUBRIC?
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
What is a RUBRIC?
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Components of RUBRIC
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Developing a RUBRIC
Task Description
What is the student
supposed to do?
Examples: write an essay,
perform a concerto, make an
oral presentation.
At the top of a sheet of
paper, place the full
description of the
assignment.
Begin a grid
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OF EDUCATION
Developing a RUBRIC
Scale (Level)
How well or poorly has the
student done on the task?
Sophisticated, competent, partly
competent, not yet competent.
Exemplary, proficient, marginal,
unacceptable.
Advanced, Intermediate, Novice.
Distinguished, proficient,
intermediate, novice.
Accomplished, developing, beginning.
(Huba and Freed,
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Developing a RUBRIC
Dimensions (Criteria)
Dimensions break down a task into
components and identify the
importance of these components.
Dimensions are descriptive, not
evaluative (e.g., “organization” not
“good organization”).
Dimensions help students see that
the work they are doing is
multidimensional and draws on
multiple abilities.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Developing a RUBRIC
Description of the
Dimensions (Descriptors)
Rubrics should contain at least a
description of the highest level of
performance.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Developing a RUBRIC
Description of the
Dimensions
(Descriptors)
Students need not fit cleanly into
a single category. On oral
presentation skills, a student
might speak in a clear voice but
lack eye contact.
Descriptions for each level help
students see that the work they are
doing does have varying levels of
achievement. There is a
difference between poor and
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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Developing a RUBRIC
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
HOLISTIC RUBRIC
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
ANALYTIC RUBRIC
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
APPLICATION
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
www.rubistar.4teachers.org
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
www.rubistar.4teachers.org
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION