Good Morning!
I would like to take a little time this morning to talk about rubrics. I believe I have mentioned them in the past, but this topic is important enough to talk about again. Rubrics are a simple way to set up a grading criteria for assignments. This tool is useful for both students and instructors so that everyone knows what is expected of a student to receive a certain grade on an assignment.
When you are creating your assignments please remember to clearly write out what the expectations are. Rather than simply asking students to "answer a question" identify what you are looking for from their answers. Because these students are taking online courses, they may not feel as comfortable asking questions because the personal relationship with the instructor is a little bit more difficult to form. Therefore it is very important to give them all of the needed information up front.
There is a lot of information on the web about rubrics. Here are a few web sites that can give you a little bit more information on this topic:
www.uen.org/rubric/html/know.html
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/teaching-methods-and-management/rubrics/4521.html
Have a great week!
Amy
Showing posts with label Rubrics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rubrics. Show all posts
Monday, August 18, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
May 19th, 2008
As we narrow in on the 25% completion deadline all of you should have received your textbooks by now. If you have not received your textbook please let me know and we will contact the publisher to see where it is at in the shipping process.
Now is about the time that you are likely thinking about assignments for the courses you are developing. I would like to encourage you to create rubrics for any assignments that you develop.
A rubric is a scoring guide that seeks to evaluate a student's performance based on the sum of a full range of criteria rather than a single numerical score. Many experts believe that rubrics improve students' end products and therefore increase learning. Here is a link to several articles that describe what rubrics are and uses a "chocolate chip cookie" to help give an example. Being as chocolate chip cookies are one of my favorites, I thought this article was a good one to pass along :-)
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/teaching-methods-and-management/rubrics/4522.html
Additionally, a couple of weeks ago Kelly Schmidt sent out this link as a great tool that helps create grading rubrics: http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
The website offers specific examples for assignments in a variety of disciplines and also helps you design original rubrics based on the course and assignment type.
Happy Developing!
Now is about the time that you are likely thinking about assignments for the courses you are developing. I would like to encourage you to create rubrics for any assignments that you develop.
A rubric is a scoring guide that seeks to evaluate a student's performance based on the sum of a full range of criteria rather than a single numerical score. Many experts believe that rubrics improve students' end products and therefore increase learning. Here is a link to several articles that describe what rubrics are and uses a "chocolate chip cookie" to help give an example. Being as chocolate chip cookies are one of my favorites, I thought this article was a good one to pass along :-)
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/teaching-methods-and-management/rubrics/4522.html
Additionally, a couple of weeks ago Kelly Schmidt sent out this link as a great tool that helps create grading rubrics: http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
The website offers specific examples for assignments in a variety of disciplines and also helps you design original rubrics based on the course and assignment type.
Happy Developing!
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
March 24, 2008
Good Morning!
Today is the 50% completion deadline. I will be going into your courses this week to look for 50% completion of course development. I will also be looking for creative course development and interesting course design strategies. Please let me know if you have any concerns about meeting this deadline.
As you are developing your course, you might be wondering if you are meeting expectations of what your course should look like and should encompass. Please view the online course development rubric at the following web page:
http://www.csuchico.edu/celt/roi/
This rubric evaluates a course based on Learner Support, Organization, Instructional Design, Assessment, Innovative Teaching with Technology, and Faculty Use of Student Feedback. As you look through what is considered "Baseline", "Effective", and "Exemplary" in each of these categories compare the descriptions to what you have done with your course design. We are looking for your course to fall in the Exemplary category as much as possible!
Today is the 50% completion deadline. I will be going into your courses this week to look for 50% completion of course development. I will also be looking for creative course development and interesting course design strategies. Please let me know if you have any concerns about meeting this deadline.
As you are developing your course, you might be wondering if you are meeting expectations of what your course should look like and should encompass. Please view the online course development rubric at the following web page:
http://www.csuchico.edu/celt/roi/
This rubric evaluates a course based on Learner Support, Organization, Instructional Design, Assessment, Innovative Teaching with Technology, and Faculty Use of Student Feedback. As you look through what is considered "Baseline", "Effective", and "Exemplary" in each of these categories compare the descriptions to what you have done with your course design. We are looking for your course to fall in the Exemplary category as much as possible!
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