Continuous Improvement
Reflection
1. Identify rubric types
Matching exercise: Match definitions to rubric types. (Matching game)
2. Improve a rubric
Matching exercise: Identify the potential problems in a rubric. (Matching game)
3. Practice rating performance tasks
Market a Movie (Spanish) - Use a rubric to evaluate student work.
Write a New Ending (French) - Use a holistic and a multitrait rubric to evaluate student work and compare the feedback that each rubric provides to students.
Fables through Comics (French) - Use a holistic rubric to evaluate student work.
Fables through Comics (German) - Use a holistic rubric to evaluate student work.
4. Identify key criteria
- Select an assessment task you will use or have used in class. Identify the key criteria to evaluate. Create or revise an appropriate rubric.
- The list below includes common tasks used for assessment. Select one you would like to use and identify the key criteria to evaluate.
| Some activities for oral performance assessments |
Some activities for written performance assessments |
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lyrics |
| Blaz, Deborah. (2001). A collection of performance tasks and rubrics: Foreign languages. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education. |
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5. Revise tasks and rubrics
- Select an assessment task you evaluated with a rubric. Consider what worked and what didn't work. Did the task elicit a significant sample from the students? Were all of the evaluation criteria appropriate? Did performance descriptors fit with students' level and were they easy to apply? Identify changes you would make before using this assessment again.
- Apply "Aunt Olive's rubric on rubrics" by Ned Miller to a rubric you created.
