Rubrics-Rubistar

Rubrics are a powerful, authentic tool used to assess students' work. This scoring tool lists specific criteria for a project or piece of work. The criterion helps students to have a concrete understanding and visualization of "what counts". Each standard or criteria also includes a gradation scale of quality. The rating scale could be numerical, qualitative, or a combination of both. Rubrics seek to evaluate assignments based on the sum of a full range of criteria rather than a single numerical score.

For this assignment we were introduced to Rubistar. RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. 

While many teachers want to use rubrics or are experimenting with writing rubrics, they can be quite time-consuming to develop. RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. RubiStar provides generic rubrics that can simply be printed and used for many typical projects and research assignments. The unique thing about RubiStar, however, is that it provides these generic rubrics in a format that can be customized. The teacher can change almost all suggested text in the rubric to make it fit their own project.

 RubiStar also does away with the tedious typing of similar content across all the various quality rating. When you choose a category to evaluate, all the quality ratings are filled in and are ready to customize. 

             What I did

I signed up for an account on RubiStar and created a rubric for my future students.For this rubric,I choose assess students work based on Mathematical Concepts, Reasoning,Errors,Terminology ,Notation.as well as Strategies and Procedures.

I then saved my rubric as a permanent file and also shared it on Google documents.

To access my rubric please click here