Grading with Rubrics

Assessment for Student Success

Summer 2005

What do you see?

source: http://users.tinyworld.co.uk/giggles/images/illusions_9people.jpg

The Road Map

• Share the Road Map• Introductions• Grading Activity• Break• Setting Expectations• Reciprocal Teaching

– Rubrics & Assessment

• Rubric for Funny• Break

• Guided Learning– Online Rubric Creator

• Discovery Learning– Online Rubric Collections

• Grading Activity Revisited

• Methods Madness• Survey/Evaluation• Thank you!

Introductions

• Instructor: Jarod Lambert– District Instructional Technology Teacher– jmlambert@kleinisd.net– 832-249-4435

• Facilitator: Timmie Harbin

Participant Introductions

• Who are you?

• What else do we need to know about you?

• What do you expect from this class?

Grade This…

• Assign a grade for Steve Martin’s performance in this video clip.

source: L. A. Story

Stand and Stretch

• Take a break…

• Talk with your neighbor…

• Get up and move…

– When the song is over, it’s back to work.

Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison(iTunes purchase)

Setting Expectations

• How do students and parents know what you expect?

• Are you clear in what you want to see occur?

• Expectations are set by whom? source: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Rubrics & Assessment

• Reciprocal Teaching– Read the article emailed to you.– Use the Double-entry Note Taking Form

• This has been emailed to your Klein email.

– When finished, save notes and email them to jmlambert@kleinisd.net.

Bach for Book Lovers(CD purchase)

Discussion: Rubrics & Assessment

• Share Your Article– Give us a brief overview.– What is the most important note from your

article?• Are there things you already do?• Are there things with which you disagree?

– Questions/Discussion

Take Five … Minutes, That Is

source: http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/Graduation2005/main.aspCantaloop by US3(iTunes purchase)

What is funny?

• Get together to create a rubric for funny.– What areas will you look at to assign

points?– To what levels of competence will you

refer?– Email the rubric to jmlambert@kleinisd.net.

• And yes, we will put your rubric to the test.

Songs by Enya and David Lanz(iTunes purchase)

Are these funny?

• Based on your rubric, decide which of the following is funny?

• Can you rank them from funniest to least funny?– And justify the ranking based on your

rubric?

Funny? Funnier? Funniest?

If the World Was Crazy by ShelSilverstein (iTunes purchase)

Plane Crash by Ron White(iTunes purchase)

source: Ellen DegeneresHere and Now: Modern Life and Other Inconveniences

source: Mike MyersSaturday Night Live: The Best of Mike Myers

Happy Feet by Steve Martin

Online Rubric Creation Tools

• http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics– Overview of Rubric Generators Available– Work with General Rubric Generator– Saving the Generated Rubric in Word– Editing the Rubric

Create a Rubric

• Create something you will use.– Think about the first six/nine weeks.– What assignments do you already do?– Could these be graded using a rubric?

Songs from Gettysburg Soundtrack(CD purchase)

Online Rubric Collections

• Discovery Learning– http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Assessments/

Ideas_and_Rubrics/ideas_and_rubrics.html

– http://school.discovery.com/schrokguide/assess.html

– http://www.tcet.unt.edu/START/instruct/general/rubrics.htm

Kuribota by Waldemar Bastros(iTunes purchase)

Why by Annie Lennox(iTunes purchase)

Songbird by Kenny G(CD purchase)

Rubric for Skating in an Art Museum

Now, grade this again…

• Using the provided rubric, assign a grade for Martin’s performance in this video clip.

source: L. A. Story

The Madness of My Methods

image source: Amazon.com

Class Survey & Evaluation

• What do you still want to know?What do you still want to know?

• Complete Survey/EvaluationComplete Survey/Evaluation

• My Contact InformationMy Contact Information– Jarod LambertJarod Lambert– jmlambert@kleinisd.net– 832-249-4435832-249-4435

References

• Media Files– All media files not individually referenced

are from:• http://www.freeaudioclips.com• http://www.jahozafat.com• http://www.frogstar.com/stuff

Thank you!

• Okay… So I am no Steve Martin, but I hope you had a good time. It would be nice if you learned something too.

Closing by Steve Martin(iTunes purchase)

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