Rubrics are one of the best ways to establish performance criteria and offer students a road map for improvement. In addition to effectively communicating expectations to students, it demonstrates for students what they need to do to reach the different levels of proficiency.
Goodwin and Hubble (2013) recommend teachers focus on the following guidelines when creating rubrics for students:
My common course teaching partner and I created a rubric for the students based off of the historical critical thinking skill that they will need to master when taking the AP World History exam next May. This is related to the unit plan and the results of the data from the formative assessment. We focused on creating a rubric that showed our students how to gain each of the points that they will be grading on when the AP Readers grade their essays next June. By using the same points rubric and modifying it into kid-friendly language, our students should go into the exam knowing exactly how to score the points needed while writing their essays. This rubric also incorporated the elements from the Social Studies Literacy Standards from the Common Core State Standards and will be used to assess all essays they write in class to prepare for the AP World History Exam.
***Below is an example of the rubric created. Due to new Scoring Guidelines to be implements in the 2018 exam, it will need to be modified to meet the new historical reasoning skills.
Goodwin and Hubble (2013) recommend teachers focus on the following guidelines when creating rubrics for students:
- Identify the proficient level first.
- Build the rest of the rubric around proficiency.
- Focus on growth.
My common course teaching partner and I created a rubric for the students based off of the historical critical thinking skill that they will need to master when taking the AP World History exam next May. This is related to the unit plan and the results of the data from the formative assessment. We focused on creating a rubric that showed our students how to gain each of the points that they will be grading on when the AP Readers grade their essays next June. By using the same points rubric and modifying it into kid-friendly language, our students should go into the exam knowing exactly how to score the points needed while writing their essays. This rubric also incorporated the elements from the Social Studies Literacy Standards from the Common Core State Standards and will be used to assess all essays they write in class to prepare for the AP World History Exam.
***Below is an example of the rubric created. Due to new Scoring Guidelines to be implements in the 2018 exam, it will need to be modified to meet the new historical reasoning skills.
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