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Assessment/Evaluation & Survey Tools
Creating Rubrics and Online Surveys
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What is A Rubric?
The following definition of a rubric can be found at Utah Education Network.
What is a Rubric?
A rubric is a great tool for teachers, because it is a simple way to set up a grading criteria for assignments. Not only is this tool useful for teachers, it is helpful for students as well. A rubric defines in writing what is expected of the student to get a particular grade on an assignment.
Heidi Goodrich Andrade, a rubrics expert, defines a rubric as "a scoring tool that lists the criteria for a piece of work or 'what counts.' " For example, a rubric for an essay might tell students that their work will be judged on purpose, organization, details, voice, and mechanics.
A good rubric also describes levels of quality for each of the criteria. These levels of performance may be written as different ratings (e.g., Excellent, Good, Needs Improvement) or as numerical scores (e.g., 4, 3, 2, 1) Under mechanics, for example, the rubric might define the lowest level of performance as "7-10 misspellings, grammar, and punctuation errors," and the highest level as "all words are spelled correctly; your work shows that you understand subject-verb agreement, when to make words possessive, and how to use commas, semicolons and periods."
Why use rubrics?
According to Heidi Goodrich Andrade:
What is a Rubric?
A rubric is a great tool for teachers, because it is a simple way to set up a grading criteria for assignments. Not only is this tool useful for teachers, it is helpful for students as well. A rubric defines in writing what is expected of the student to get a particular grade on an assignment.
Heidi Goodrich Andrade, a rubrics expert, defines a rubric as "a scoring tool that lists the criteria for a piece of work or 'what counts.' " For example, a rubric for an essay might tell students that their work will be judged on purpose, organization, details, voice, and mechanics.
A good rubric also describes levels of quality for each of the criteria. These levels of performance may be written as different ratings (e.g., Excellent, Good, Needs Improvement) or as numerical scores (e.g., 4, 3, 2, 1) Under mechanics, for example, the rubric might define the lowest level of performance as "7-10 misspellings, grammar, and punctuation errors," and the highest level as "all words are spelled correctly; your work shows that you understand subject-verb agreement, when to make words possessive, and how to use commas, semicolons and periods."
Why use rubrics?
According to Heidi Goodrich Andrade:
- Rubrics help students and teachers define "quality."
- When students use rubrics regularly to judge their own work, they begin to accept more responsibility for the end product. It cuts down on the "am I done yet?" questions.
- Rubrics reduce the time teachers spend grading student work and makes it easier for teachers to explain to students why they got the grade they did and what they can do to improve.
- Parents usually like the rubrics concept once they understand it, and they find rubrics useful when helping with homework. As one teacher says: "They know exactly what their child needs to do to be successful."
Rubistar
Create Rubrics Using This Free Online Tool
Create rubrics for your project-based learning activities with Rubistar. Make excellent rubrics quickly and save them and edit them all online. Access them from home, school or on the road. You can choose from multiple topics and create a rubric to meet your specific needs. Topics include: Oral Projects, Multimedia, Math, Writing, Products, Reading, Art, Work Skills, Science and Music.
To use the Rubistar Tutorial, click here.
To use the Rubistar Tutorial, click here.
Survey & Evaluation Tools
Zoomerang & SurveyMonkey
A great way to gather data from students is by using a survey and evaluation tools. One can also used these tools to determine professional development needs of their staff. Both Zoomerang and SurveyMonkey have free versions with educational upgrades available.
Zoomerang allows one to make surveys with a variety of questions. The information can be imported directly into PowerPoint, and can create charts and graphs from the data.
For a introductory demo of Zoomerang, click here.
Zoomerang allows one to make surveys with a variety of questions. The information can be imported directly into PowerPoint, and can create charts and graphs from the data.
For a introductory demo of Zoomerang, click here.
When creating a survey with SurveyMonkey you can choose from over a dozen types of questions. They have ready made templates and the results can be quickly downloaded into a spreadsheet. Questions can be randomized as well. Click here for video tutorials of SurveyMonkey.
Recorded Video Session Tutorials
I have compiled all the recorded video session tutorials for the Assessment/Evaluation & Survey Tools together here for your convenience. Click on any of the links below to see the tutorial from one of the instructors.
From "21 Things for the 21st Century Educator"
From "21 Things for the 21st Century Educator"
- Rubistar & SurveyMonkey 17:15 minutes
- Rubistar 10:35 minutes
- Zoomerang and Survey Monkey 7:32 minutes
- Assessment/Evaluation & Survey Tools Andy Mann 23:49
Additional Resources
- Rubistar - http://rubistar.4teachers.org
Top Ten Sites for Creating Surveys
from Tech & Learning September 2010
1 Strutta: Create not just polls, but online contests as well. Strutta allows teachers to moderate all student content before being posted online.
2 Runpolls: An easy site to use, with a drag and drop interface.
3 Flisti: A simple poll creator that allows users to share with popular social networks.
4 Obsurvey: A great site with a wiki-style interface that allows users to create surveys with different styles of questions, such as multiple choice, true or false, and others.
5 Survey Monkey: One of the best online sites for creating surveys. The free version offers 10 questions per survey, up to 100 responses, and real-time results.
6 Polldaddy: Similar to Survey Monkey, with a nice user interface.
7 Vorbeo: An easy-to-use site that lets users embed a poll directly into their blog or Web site.
8 Text the Mob: Good site to use with a large audience. Allows users to text in their responses via a mobile device. Built-in filtering soon to come, which would be ideal for schools.
9 Insightify: A great collaborative Web site for creating online surveys.
10 Yarp: A fun site to use for creating simple surveys that generates a unique URL.
David Kapuler was the media and technology specialist at Greendale (Wis.) School District. Read his blog at cyber-kap.blogspot.com.
2 Runpolls: An easy site to use, with a drag and drop interface.
3 Flisti: A simple poll creator that allows users to share with popular social networks.
4 Obsurvey: A great site with a wiki-style interface that allows users to create surveys with different styles of questions, such as multiple choice, true or false, and others.
5 Survey Monkey: One of the best online sites for creating surveys. The free version offers 10 questions per survey, up to 100 responses, and real-time results.
6 Polldaddy: Similar to Survey Monkey, with a nice user interface.
7 Vorbeo: An easy-to-use site that lets users embed a poll directly into their blog or Web site.
8 Text the Mob: Good site to use with a large audience. Allows users to text in their responses via a mobile device. Built-in filtering soon to come, which would be ideal for schools.
9 Insightify: A great collaborative Web site for creating online surveys.
10 Yarp: A fun site to use for creating simple surveys that generates a unique URL.
David Kapuler was the media and technology specialist at Greendale (Wis.) School District. Read his blog at cyber-kap.blogspot.com.