How can teachers develop effective success rubrics?

Educational ResearchArea of FocusThe purpose of this research paper is to promote more powerful teaching and learning by clarifying how to create an effective success rubric. While I was student teaching in Fall of 2004 I attended a Math workshop halfway dedicated to creating successful rubrics as a way of guiding and assessing math. At this workshop I was informed of how, in elementary schools and with the new Georgia Performance Standards, rubrics are going to become the main form of assessment in the classroom and will start being used as a form of grading system. Because of this, I find it critical for teachers to learn how to create successful rubrics for the sake of their students as well as themselves. The more teachers know about how rubrics are set up and used, and the more practice teachers receive by using successful rubrics, the more confident teachers will be when using them and the more successful their students will be.

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Since I am preparing to be a teacher myself, I would like to be educated in all areas of assessment.

Research QuestionHow can teachers develop effective success rubrics?Definition of Key TermsRubricA rule or guide presenting clear criteria by which a complex performance can be judged.

AssessmentA term used loosely to refer to any type of appraisal of young children. In a narrower sense it refers to information from multiple indicators and sources of evidence, which is then synthesized, integrated, interpreted, and evaluated to make an assessment.

Authentic AssessmentThe situation or context in which the task, which is as close as possible to real-life practical and intellectual challenges, is performedBenchmark/ StandardA point of reference for measurement and evaluation.

PromptUsed in the rubric to tell the students and their parents exactly what is expected of the learner in a given assignment.