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Ontario’s CurriculumOntario’s Curriculum

When Ontario’s Ministry of Education introduced the new curriculum, the guidelines included a new, standardized way of assessing and evaluating students.

The Ministry guidelines were very specific about how a rubric should be structured and the language it contains. In addition, every rubric needed to explicitly state which curriculum expectations were being measured.

The creation of a well written, effective rubric can be very time consuming. What could be done to reduce the amount of time it takes to create these assessments without sacrificing the quality?

The ExpectationsThe Expectations

To begin with, we scanned and entered every

course and expectation in the curriculum. We

then created a powerful database which linked

courses with their general and specific

expectations.

The CriteriaThe Criteria

Next, we hired a staff of almost 30 teachers to write Next, we hired a staff of almost 30 teachers to write

thousands of rich and diverse criteria for teachers to choose thousands of rich and diverse criteria for teachers to choose

from. from.

Our writers took the utmost care to ensure that the criteria Our writers took the utmost care to ensure that the criteria

meet the ministry guidelines. The criteria:meet the ministry guidelines. The criteria:

Describe achievement in terms of success, not failureDescribe achievement in terms of success, not failure

Are either qualitative or quantitative but not both Are either qualitative or quantitative but not both

Are fresh, creative and original.Are fresh, creative and original.

The Rubric BuilderThe Rubric Builder

Now you know all of the work that went into Now you know all of the work that went into creating the database of courses, creating the database of courses, expectations and criteria.expectations and criteria.

Let’s take a look at the actual program and Let’s take a look at the actual program and how easy it is to turn all that information into how easy it is to turn all that information into a first class rubric with a first class rubric with The Rubric Builder.The Rubric Builder.

The Information ScreenThe Information Screen

The information page contains your

school name and a list of all the

teachers who have used the program.

These are stored in the program and

only need be entered the first time.

This screen is also where you will

provide a name and description for

your new rubric.

At the bottom of your screen, you will

choose the grade level and course

before continuing to the next screen.

The Expectations ScreenThe Expectations Screen

This screen will list all of the general

and specific expectations for your

chosen course taken directly from the

Ontario Ministry of Education

curriculum. Double click or use the

arrows to add or remove expectations.

You also have the ability to search for

and choose expectations from other

courses. This is very useful on those

occasions when you will have inter-

disciplinary assignments.

Criteria ScreenCriteria ScreenOn this screen you will select the criteria that

will be used in the assessment. To make it

easier to find the desired criteria you can

limit the list by task or category. You will

probably also want to limit the criteria to

those which are relevant to your chosen

expectations.

Select criteria by dragging the text into one

of four categories boxes: Knowledge,

Thinking, Communication or Application. You

can also click on the arrow to have the

criteria added to the most appropriate box.

This screen will also allow you to create your

own criteria and level descriptors for this

rubric.

View/Edit ScreenView/Edit Screen

This screen allows you to view and edit

the rubric before it is printed. You may

double-click on any of the squares to

begin editing the text it contains. You

may add custom criteria at this stage

as well.

This is the screen which will allow you

to have complete control over how the

rubric is worded. All of the criteria and

the level descriptors are completely

editable to ensure that you get the

exact wording that is right for your

rubric.

Print / Export ScreenPrint / Export ScreenThis final screen will allow you to preview

and print your completed rubric. You

may also export to Word and

WordPerfect in order to further refine

your rubric before printing it

There are three other forms which may

be printed if you find them relevant to

your particular rubric:

•“Teacher's Companion Information

Sheet”

• “Leveled Marking Sheet”

•“Checklist Marking Sheet”

•Software that is incredibly fast and simple to learn.

•The actual Ontario Ministry of Education expectations are included and linked to the

criteria.

•Thousands of rich and diverse criteria and level descriptions for you to choose from.

•All criteria were written by teachers and adhere to the Ministry of Education guidelines.

•All criteria are searchable by task, expectation, course, achievement and key word.

•Powerful and flexible. Your rubric will look exactly the way you want it to.

•Choose from 8 different ways to print or export to Microsoft® Word and Corel

WordPerfect®.

•Print a leveled marking sheet, perfect for marking oral presentations.

What makes The Rubric Builder so great?

•Elementary, Grades 1 - 8

•Secondary, Grades 9 – 12

•School and board licenses available

Versions:

•Hundreds of schools and thousands of teachers already using The Rubric

Builder.

•Site license permits all faculty to use the software at home.

•Unlimited E-mail and telephone tech support for one year.

•Available since 1999; Time tested.

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