In the current context surrounding educational achievement in American culture, properly assessing a student, teacher, and school becomes a topic of fierce debate and controversy. Rubrics offer an excellent avenue to judge the impact the school year has had on a student's performance. One website which offers educators and administrators a free, easy, and convenient way to create clear and concise expectations for a particular assignment, goal, or any other task related to education. The website, rubistar.4teachers.org.php helps educators create a rubric to ensure expectations are clear. It is important, especially in the middle school setting to be as clear and concise as possible. Middle school students need what is expected from them up front because otherwise, most of them will do the minimum requirement for a class assignment.
The website features the option to either create your own rubric directly from the beginning, with the option of a template of course. The site even divides the possible templates into possible subject areas, which would really help an elementary school teacher who has to teach six or seven subjects a day. The subject areas include oral project (which definitely need a rubric to accompany something which is not as tangible as other subjects like a math assignment), art, reading, multimedia, writing, science, music, math, and many more. These subject areas would help any elementary teacher with creating an atmosphere with clear expectations for each assignment from the teacher.
The interactive feature from the Rubistar site creates a dynamic where the assessment of a student links to Blackboard or some other grade publishing site, and it connects that to the rubric which was used to grade the student. This really helps students see exactly where they were counted off.
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