Grading Rubrics: An interactive assessment tool

Speaker: Paul Rowan

Date: Monday, September 10th, 2007

Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Location: Omiya, Saitama

Venue: Sakuragi Kominkan 5F (near Omiya Station, west exit, see map).

Description: A Grading Rubric is a scoring guide designed to identify overall strengths/weaknesses in a student?'s task. In this presentation, Paul Rowan will discuss four key points that make Rubrics an effective tool for student assessment and peer feedback. First, he will discuss how he directs students into improving their tasks through guided self-discovery. He guides his students to identify their successes or problems and what they might do to fix or to improve their work. Second, Rowan shows how the Rubric can be used by students to provide peer feedback by having them use a Rubric to assess their classmates?' work. This effective exercise deepens their understanding of what constitutes success. Thirdly, he will discuss the usefulness of including students in the design phase of the Rubric. Student involvement here is empowering for the student and facilitates a sense of ownership of the marking criteria and this enhances their understanding of how to make their task successful. Lastly, he will show how the Rubric is also useful as a process guide. The students are encouraged to use the rubric as a checklist of benchmarks to be achieved. After the presentation on the pedagogical functions of Rubrics, participants will take part in a workshop to learn how to make their own Rubrics.

Cost for JALT members: free

Cost for JALT non-members: 1000 yen

Organization: Omiya Chapter, Japan Association for Language Teaching

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