Rubrics

For this assignment, I had to create a grading Rubric on Rubistar. Rubistar is a way to create easy rubrics to evaluate our students performances. Rubrics contain categories that contain expectations based under a level of numbers. I actually had several rubrics that I used in my previous clinical work so I was familiar with creating them. However, I never used the Rubistar site. I created my rubric on Rubistar using Video-Talk Show: Play Performance. This rubric would be used to evaluate my students on a final performance assessment. My students would conduct a play based on the story that was used for a particular unit of study. For instance, I used this rubric with my students in conducting a video recorded play based on the story "The Great Kapok Tree" at the end of the unit of study. The students were evaluated with the rubric on Presentation of Character, Achievement of Purpose,Use of Non-Verbal Cues (voice, gestures, props, masks), Imagination and Creativity, and Fluency. When creating my rubric on Rubistar I was able to save it to the site and was then given the Rubric ID: 2206991. The Rubric ID can be shared with others so they can view my rubric from the site. I also saved my rubric in googledocs and then shared the file for public viewing. 


Click here to view my online Play Performance Rubric. 

This assignment goes along with teaching standard function 3E: Use of Assessments in Instruction. Rubrics allow teachers to give students an outline of what is expected of them for a particular assignments. Students should be given the rubric when the assignment is given and know what is expected of them in order to receive the highest grade. Also, function 4C: Reflection on Practice allows me as an educator to determine what worked best or didn't work in my rubric which then gives me the opportunity to make adjustments to the rubric for future use.