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Why Rubrics?
What's
All the Hype?
The role of assessment in teaching happens to be a hot issue in education
today. This has led to an increasing interest in "performance-based education."
Performance-based education poses a challenge for teachers to design instruction
that is task oriented. The trend is based on the premise that learning
needs to be connected to the lives of the students through relevant tasks
that focus on students' ability to use their knowledge and skills in meaningful
ways. In this case, performance-based tasks require performance-based
assessments in which the actual student performance is assessed through
a product, such as a completed project or work that demonstrates levels
of task achievement. At times, performance-based assessment has been used
interchangeably with "authentic assessment" and "alternative assessment."
In all cases, performance-based assessment has led to the use of a variety
of alternative ways of evaluating student progress ( journals, checklists,
portfolios, projects, rubrics, etc.) as compared to more traditional methods
of measurement (paper and pencil testing). For the purpose of this tutorial,
the use of rubrics will be explored as a viable means of evaluating students'
performances.
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