Exploratory Learning Environments
Rubrics
The word “rubric” derives from the Latin word for “red.”
It was once used to signify the highlights of a legal decision as well as the directions for conducting religious services, found in the margins of liturgical books—both written in red.
What is a Rubric?
| 1. A rubric is a set of criteria or expectations to assess learners' performance. |
| 2. Criteria are established to help distinguish between expert and novice responses. |
| 3. A rubric becomes a learning tool when it presents guidelines for students to track. Thus rubrics bridge assessment and learning. |
| 4. Application of rubrics to specific contexts help learners identify personal strengths and weaknesses. |
| 5. Learners feel the freedom to be imaginative, creative and constructive within an exploratory learning environment. |
| 6. Rubrics enable teachers to make valid and reliable inferences about the learners version of reality. |
| 7.Rubrics encourage learners' ownership of the 'product' of learning |
Useful links:
How to create a rubric from scratch
Rubric Banks - and more rubric starters
Why do we use rubrics?
The aim of the criteria is to be engaging and effective to:
Offer constructive feedback which enables learners to achieve agreed learning goals
Motivate learners to construct their own version of reality.
Enable valid evaluations of learners' 'product'.
Provide consistent and reliable assessment of learning over time.
