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What are Rubrics?
Rubrics are one of the tools that can assist Quakertown Community School District teachers, students and parents as they evaluate student work. In the book, Standards for Our Schools, Tucker and Codding define a rubric as follows:
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A rubric is a scoring guide that indicates the criteria on which a piece of student work will be evaluated, based on standards for student performance. Rubrics indicate the characteristics of work at each level of performance, from work that barely shows evidence of meeting a standard to work that exceeds a standard. |
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Students have a better chance of meeting standards if they have a well-developed understanding of what high-quality work looks like and how to produce it. Once developed, rubrics should be displayed prominently so that students, parents, and teachers are familiar with them and understand what constitutes standards-level work.
QCSD has developed K-12 rubrics for reading, writing and mathematics. These rubrics can be used to help teachers, students and parents evaluate student work. We realize that work done by a primary student will be significantly different from the work done by a secondary student; thus, samples of student work that correspond to the rubrics must be shared with students.
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