Saturday, February 21, 2009

RubiStar: It Saves Me

For teachers, Rubistar helps tremendously. RubiStar has given me a
guide into the world of assessment based on rubrics. Along with allowing
us to make free rubrics, it gives us an eye into the world of rubrics by
giving us some backround and the defintion of what a rubric is. A
website that provides the world of teachers with free rubrics definetly
helps the grading becoming easier because the assessment is already
there for us to use in order to guide us in the grading process.

In the process of finding a rubric to use in my paper about how i
would use a rubric in the classroom setting, i began to space out. But
when Dr. L provided us with the links to websites to help us with
rubrics and assessment it helped remove some stress I was feeling.
It was so easy to use RubiStar because of the simplicity of the
website. But this is what I needed in having a rubric for whch I
could grade my students' assessment. I just put in all the
information needed and it designed it. It's great and I definetly
will be using this feature again in my future assessments!

Thursday, February 19, 2009

What's a Rubric?

Rubric is a form of educational assessment that allows students to
know what the teacher wants of them, before the project is done
and graded. It also let's for them to assess themselves along the
way, and have them conform themselves to the object at hand
especially essays. I find that students have a hard time writing an
essay on a particular subject. But, when a rubric is presented for
them, it allows them to follow the rules in order to produce a good
grade for the work that they have done. I feel that if my teachers
would have used more rubrics in the past, than my fellow
classmates would have done better on papers. Without a rubric
the standards that the teacher would like the studet to reach
from completing the assignment are unclear. Rubrics definetly
help the student grade their own assessment, and helps the
teacher give a better grade on the assignment knowing that the
students were aware of what the teacher needed from the
students.