Rubrics at Play is an article about rubrics and how they should be used to be most beneficial. The authors stated that assessment must be formative and rubrics are often found to be useful as formative assessment tools. Holistic, analytic, specific, and general rubrics were all explained in the article. The authors explained that rubrics should be viewed as more than just an assessment tool. Rubrics can help provide the teacher with feedback, further students'understanding of the topic being learned, and they can facilitate the discussion of ideas. The process of creating rubrics using student work, and the assessment task are given. Student-created rubrics were also highlighted. The authors provide many examples of how students can be involved in the process of creating a rubric. Student involvement in rubric creation promotes students to take ownership of the assessment process. This strategy allows the students to understand what is expected of them from the assignment. When a rubric is created correctly it can be a beneficial formative assessment tool. Rubrics help teachers by acting as a guide for analyzing the work of students. Rubrics also provide the teacher with feedback regarding their instruction. Rubrics also enable to teacher to provide each student with feedback that is specific to them. The specific feedback allows the students to move to higher skill levels. This encourages students to become independent learners. The article included examples of different types of rubrics, a personal story of creating a rubric, and reflection and discussion questions for teacher to use.
I thought this article was very informative. I liked that the article provided examples of rubrics. It can be difficult to create rubrics and providing examples helps explain the proper way to create a rubric. The authors included a chart with the four categories, excellent, proficient, marginal, and satisfactory. I liked that the description of these would be useful to a teacher because it helps them create a clear line between each grade that could be given. The information in this article would be useful for a classroom teacher because it provides steps for creating a rubric that can be used as formative assessment. I thought that the incorporation of a teacher's story about creating a rubric, and creating a rubric with their class was useful, because it gave a real life example of how the process carried out. It can give a teacher a better understanding of how the rubric formation process will be done.
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