1. Authentic Assessment and Rubrics How can I use one to help develop the other? Adapted from materials developed by Entisar Ali Muaither Independent Preparatory School for Girls

2. Learner Objectives • To design rubrics appropriate to their assessment types. • To differentiate between valid and invalid rubrics. • To differentiate between reliable and unreliable rubrics. • To identify types and examples of authentic assessments.

3. Workshop Topics • Rubrics • Types • Situations for implementation • Design and construction • Aligning rubrics to assessments • Criteria • Descriptors • Types of Assessments • Selected response • Constructed response • Authentic assessment • Situations for implementation • Types

4. What is your most positive memory of a grade you earned for a piece of work? Why? What is your darkest memory of getting an unfair mark/score/grade on a test, project, or assignment? Why?

5. Introductions • Who are you? What department are you in? What do you expect from this workshop? • Overview • Do you use rubrics? How? • Learner Objectives • Rationalize design of self-selected rubric • Apply appropriate rubric design to selected assessment type • Activity • Hierarchy of foods

6. What’s a Rubric? • Name your favorite food. • What about it makes it your favorite? 3. Name your least favorite food. 4. What about it makes it so awful? 5. Name two foods that are better than your least favorite food, but not as good as your favorite. 6. What about them makes them in-between?

7. How can you create your own rubric?

8. Rubric-related websites Comprehensive  http://www.rubrics4teachers.com/index.php Math Rubrics http://math.about.com/sitesearch.htm?terms=rubrics&SUName=math&TopNode=99 Problem-Based Learning Checklists http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/checklist.shtml Oral Presentation http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/testing.php3?idunique=3&max=6&checklist=11 Rubric-building software http://www.rubrics.com/rubric_examples.html