Quick and useful
Submitted 11 years ago
Community Review for Rubistar
Ryan H.
Mount Si High School
Snoqualmie WA, US
My Take
Rubistar is easy to use and you can find several rubrics created by other educators. If you know how to write a strong rubric that leads students to the desired outcome it can be a great tool. If you don't know how to do that then it could hinder student learning. This is really a teacher tool but there could be some student use aspects.
How I Use It
As a teaching tool it can be powerful and easy to use. If you create an account you can save your rubrics online for others to use. Perhaps students could create their own scoring rubrics for different projects to get them thinking about assessment and differentiation. If you need a quick framework for student work/projects this is a good place to start.
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Lashonda G.
Teacher
Freeport, NY
January 11, 2018
Free and Clear Rubrics
Overall, I love this as a teaching tool and have not yet found anything even close enough to rival it.
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Crissy W.
Teacher
Village of Barboursville Elementary School
Barboursville, WV
July 31, 2016
Easy and Quick Way to Make Rubrics
This is a decent tool to create rubrics. I like that you can create a rubric very quickly. However, it is limited in that you typically can only create a rubric in one topic area, whereas many teachers use multiple items to assess students. I often download the rubrics into a Microsoft Word table so I can edit it and merge more than one rubric into one. This has worked well for my needs. I also put a weight on each item on the rubric . For instance, content would typically carry more weight that grammar. I usually give students a copy of the rubric ahead of time so they know the expectations beforehand.
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Scott W.
Teacher
Cabell Midland High School
Ona, WV
June 10, 2014
provides a quick rubric-making tool for student work
Wonderful product. Students and parents benefit from knowing what standards are expected and reduces are arguments over teacher's grading of product
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