Demonstrates Excellence Criteria should center around learning, not tasks. “Appropriate criteria,” according to Brookhart’ s 2018 research,“are the key to effective rubrics. Trivial or surface-level criteria will not draw learning goals for students as clearly as substantive criteria. Students will...
Lastly, the criteria for each level should be observable and measurable in some way. If I claim that students are supposed to “know” something, it is important to indicate what precisely that knowledge will look like. For example, I could specify in the rubric description that a paper with...
the process for developing a rubric, no matter the type, follows a similar set of stepsFootnote42: (a) define the learning outcomes of the module; (b) describe the assessment tasks that cover these learning outcomes; and, (c) identify the criteria and standards...
Putting Rubrics to the Test: The Effect of a Model, Criteria Generation, and Rubric-Referenced Self-Assessment on Elementary School Students' Writing ( (2008). Putting rubrics to the test: the effect of a model, criteria generation, and rubric-referenced self-assessment on elementary school stude...