1. Improving Student Achievement Three of the most effective strategies that have been found to have most success are: • Sharing learning intentions with students • Sharing success criteria with students • Effective teacher feedback – Rubrics are part of this

2. Improving Student Achievement “Teachers need to know the learning intentions and success criteria of their lessons, know how well they are attaining these criteria for all students. And know where to go next in light of the gap between current student’s knowledge and understanding and the success criteria” (Hattie, 2009, pp 36,37)

3. Enhancing Student Learning Starting point for assessment • VELS

4. Creating standard rubrics across the KLD • English created standard rubrics from VELS progression points • Learning, not doing • Linked to the ‘big picture’ – what learning comes before and after

5. Rubrics for Students • Student friendly • Teacher friendly • Helps to emphasize student’s responsibility as learners – they can see what they need to know/do/make/understand • Gives students ownership of their learning • Provides focus for the teacher as well

6. Rubrics in other KLDs • Year 9 Humanities Semester 1 – JM • A good Rubric will describe the levels of quality for each of the criteria, usually on a point scale, for example, the rubric might define the lowest level of performance as "More than ten grammatical, spelling and/or punctuation errors," and the highest level as "all words are spelt correctly;

7. Convict Assignment Assessment Rubric – Year 9 Sem 1

8. Why use a Rubric? • Increase objectivity of marking process • Clarify and demystify the marking process • Explain more easily to students why they received the mark they did • Assist students to improve their work and their marks • Encourage students to become aware of and monitor their own levels of performance • Ensure that all of the assessment or course objectives are being evaluated. • Streamline the assessment and feedback process – a good rubric gives the VELS level and the comments ready for the written semester report

9. How can Rubrics be used? • Discuss rubrics with students so they understand how the rubric will be used to evaluate performance and determine marks. • Provide rubrics at the beginning of the unit and revisit and discuss them as each related part of the task comes up, so that students have a clear understanding of what is required. • Give students examples to help them understand how to meet the criteria, and show when criteria are being met • http://www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/assessment/preptoyear10/tools/rubrics.htm