Thing 12 - Rubrics

I use rubrics on a regular basis in all of my classes, so this can certainly be a useful tool. I spend countless hours creating, formatting, tweeking, etc. my rubrics. Therefore, this could certainly help save me time in setting up my rubrics, and makes it easier for me to share them with students, parents, and other staff members who might use the same rubric. I really like to large selection of rubric types that are available, but as a science teacher will use the science lab report default.

The specific rubric I created will be used in grading our plant study formal labs. Groups of students are given the opportunity in October & November to complete their own scientific investigation on plant germination and growth. Time is given in class to record data adn give treatments three days per week. Upon the conclusion of the data collections, students are expected to write a detailed college style formal lab report detailing everything they did from start to finish. This rubric will then be used to assess their lab reports. The only thing I don't like about this is that is setup for holistic scoring and much of the grading I do on this lab is more of a checklist style. I will need to play around more with the editting features in rubistar to figure this out.