EDU 6160 bPortfolio Post October 23th

Prompt: Describe a rubric used for a unit you might teach with attention to strengths and limitations

In our previous health unit, we did a health skills project. The students had to research a health skill and then create a poster with GoogleDraw or a PowToon to share their research.  The rubric in figure 1 is the rubric that was used.  However, I was not the one that used the rubric for grading, I had the students grade each other. 

Figure 1

            Some of the strengths of this rubric include being written in mainly kid friendly language and using multiple evaluative criteria.  The 9^th grade students were the ones using this rubric so it needed to be user friendly.  The rubric has the definition of each criterion next to the boxes for scoring.  This helps the students to understand what is expected of each score.  In addition to the four main criteria, there was also a fifth criterion of creativity for another evaluative criteria. 

            Some of the weaknesses that this rubric has is the language is not completely kid friendly.  Synthesized is used in every score for accuracy and if a student does not know what that word means, they would be unable to score accurately.   The second weakness is layout.  I think the layout is a little wordy and although the definition of each score is helpful, it may confuse other students. 

            Overall, I this rubric worked for our previous lesson and the students like grading each other’s work.  It gives them control over the class, which is extremely important in learning.