| Reviewed: |
Jul 04, 2008 by Teacher Education |
| Overview: |
The Rubric Machine is an online tool for creating performance-based rubrics. The website uses a wizard to walk an instructor through the planning process of developing a rubric. When finished, the instructor can use a provided link to allow students to assess each other's work. |
| Learning Goals: |
The goal of Rubric Machine is to help educators create rubrics that clearly show students what is meaningful on a performance-based assignment.
The Rubric Machine site provides both background and a tool for developing such rubrics. |
| Target Student Population: |
University teacher education students, college professors who want to improve their assessment, K-12 educators |
| Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills: |
Learners should have a basic understanding of assessment language. There are plenty of examples so even someone coming in blank should be able to create quality rubrics with this tool. |
| Type of Material: |
tutorial and resource |
| Recommended Uses: |
This would be a great tool to use in a teacher education assessment course. It might be nice to have an assignment which compared various rubric creation tools.
Preservice and inservice teachers could use the site as well as methods and student teaching support classes. |
| Technical Requirements: |
Users will need general knowledge of how to use forms in Web pages. |
