Know Your Rubrics!

Rubrics are optional tools that help teachers make consistent judgments about the quality of learners’ work.

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Rubrics are usually shared with learners after performing their assigned tasks.

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A task description or descriptive title of a rubric refers to the task students are expected to produce or perform.

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Each rubric has four essential features.

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Rubrics are essentially subjective because its criteria are undefined.

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Rubrics provide benchmarks against which to measure and document progress.

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Analytical Rubrics assess learners' work as a whole.

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In a Holistic Rubric, levels of performance for each criterion are clearly articulated.

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The first step in constructing rubrics is to identify the learning outcomes or performance standards.

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Use an Analytical Rubric if you want to assign points based on achievement level for several criteria.

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