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Rubrics fo r teach ingRubrics fo r learn ing

Dannelle D. Stevens,Ph.D.

Portland StateUniversity


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Overview of Keynote

1. What is a rubric?

2. Do you need a rubric?

3. What do rubrics have to do with learning?

4. How do rubrics narrow the gap betweenteaching & learning?

5. What effects do rubrics have on studentlearning?

6. What effects do rubrics have on your teaching?


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What is a rubric?

A rubric is a way to grade studentwork. It is a description of theassignment or task laid out on a grid.

It has 4 basic parts: TASK DESCRIPTION

DIMENSIONS SCALE or levels of performance

DESCRIPTION OF THE DIMENSIONS


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A rubric looks like this.


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The word rubric comesfrom

From Latin, rubrica red earth for coloring, redchalk. That part of any work in early manuscriptsand typography which was colored red, todistinguish it from other portions.

A heading printed in red or a special type. A rubric today retains its connection to

authoritative rule and particularly to redness.

Rubrics divide an assignment up into itscomponent parts and provide a detaileddescription of what constitutes acceptable orunacceptable leves of performance for each of its

parts.


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Do you need a rubric?

If you agree with at least three of thefollowing statements, you need a

rubric


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What do rubrics have to dowith student learning?

1. Developmental differences

2. Life experiences

3. Paragraph reading

====> Constructivism.

Learners construct meaning basedon their own experience.


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The communication gap


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How do rubrics narrow the

gap between learning andteaching?

One way. Students like rubrics

It was the reason I took this class. Someone said you hadclear rubrics.

clarity, clarity, clarity

Rubrics help break down the assignment into digestibleparts in a very clear, organized manner.

I find that I read the rubric, write my paper and then goback to check to see if I have everything. If not, I add. Ioften put in more that the rubric states.

I loved them


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What effect do rubrics haveon student learning?

Increase student learning through better,more timely feedback

Increases motivation because of clearexpectations

Guide students to be more independentlearners, monitor their own work better:increase metacognition

Improve communication with tutors,writing center, peers


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What effect do rubrics haveon your teaching?

Reduce grading time

More consistency in grading

Fewer office visits by befuddled students Less time in class describing a complex

assignment

Able to check where students are not

learning- organization, ideas, formatting?? Greater clarity for you, too.


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A final note

Lets narrow the gap between whatwe teach and what students learn by

using rubrics.

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