Topic outline

  • Unit 39 Tools to support Assessment (Rubrics)


    • Meet your facilitator

    • Unit Introduction

      Assessment is one of the most important parts of teaching. After all, it is the best way we have of knowing what our learners are learning. It is not necessarily the same as what we are teaching.

      Doing assessment well (whether it is formative or summative), requires that we are clear about what we are assessing and what success looks like. If you area assessing a learner’s answer to a Maths problem, this is relatively straightforward. What is correct and incorrect and quite clear.

      But what if you are assessing a piece of creative writing, or a presentation, or a group project or a piece of art. In these cases, assessment is far more subjective. Rubrics are simple but powerful tools that help us with these kinds of assessment and help us to assess fairly and consistently.

      By the end of this unit you will be able to (replace with image):



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    • Assessment instructions


      For this assessment, you are going to create and share your own analytic rubric. Before you start, have a look at the rubric that will be used to assess the quality of your rubric.

      Rubric


      1. Choose an assignment that you need to assess during the next term that would be well supported by an analytic rubric.
      2. In Microsoft Word, write a short description of the assignment to be assessed.
      3. Create a rubric with which to assess this assignment (you can use an online tool if you want to but it is not required).
      4. Add your rubric to the same Microsoft Word document in which you described the assignment to be assessed.
      5. Use the upload function below to upload a copy of this document.

    • Attribution and References

      References

      • The Source for Learning, Inc. (2017). Why use rubrics? Available here.
      • Quality Rubrics. (2017). Presentation Rubric Revised. Available here.

      • Licence

        Teachers' ICT Integration Course by Matthew Goniwe School of Leadership and Governance is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License with the exception of the following resources:

        The Source for Learning, Inc. (2017). Why use rubrics?
        Quality Rubrics. (2017). Presentation Rubric Revised.

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