a scoring guide for evaluating the quality of work or products to answer the question: What does mastery, and varying degrees of mastery, look like? Has three essential features: evaluative criteria, quality definitions, and a scoring strategy, which may be either holistic or analytic
category name; "it is usually discussed under the rubric of `functional obesity'"
A brief statement describing a certain quantity or quality of work, learning or behavior Rubrics are often organized in descending order, with statements describing, for example, excellent behavior, good behavior, acceptable behavior, and poor behavior
Teacher uses this for grading performance assessments or any student work in the academic standards classroom Rubrics describe to students exactly what their work must look like, to be considered excellent or satisfactory
A titlepage, or part of it, especially that giving the date and place of printing; also, the initial letters, etc
a printed set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback
an established and written-down set of criteria for scoring or rating student's performance on tests, portfolios, writing samples, or other performance tasks
is an assessment tool with a well-defined set of guidelines for assigning scores that provides descriptions for all criteria being assessed and shows a range of performance from exemplary to low
A heading, characteristically written in red ink, that either precedes a body of text and introduces the title of the work or its subdivisions (known as an opening rubric), or follows a body of text or its subdivisions and signals the conclusion of the work or subdivision (known as a closing rubric) An opening rubric normally begins with the word incipit and a closing rubric with the word explicit, though both are distinct from the INCIPIT and EXPLICIT as the opening and closing words of the text proper of a work
Some of the definitions of rubric are contradictory In general, a rubric is a scoring guide used in subjective assessments A rubric implies that a rule defining the criteria of an assessment system is followed in evaluation A rubric can be an explicit description of performance characteristics corresponding to a point on a rating scale A scoring rubric makes explicit ex-pected qualities of performance on a rating scale or the definition of a single point on a scale Topic areas: Accountability and Evaluation
The directions and rules for the conduct of service, formerly written or printed in red; hence, also, an ecclesiastical or episcopal injunction; usually in the plural
That part of any work in the early manuscripts and typography which was colored red, to distinguish it from other portions