I recently finished a marathon of grading portfolios, and grading revised portfolios for my students. It’s a stressful and time that is busy but one thing I’m very happy about may be the method in which my use of holistic rubrics allows me to focus this grading work on student growth in reading, writing and thinking.
A couple of years ago I used analytical rubrics.
These are the rubrics that function a lot more like a checklist, where students can get 10 points due to their thesis statement, and get 7 points then with their utilization of evidence. A holistic rubric however, generally describes what an item (such as for example an essay, analysis paragraph etc.)
looks like at each level, such as this example from my “Analysis Writing” rubric:
- Student identifies details which are relevant to the text overall 1 and that clearly connect with one another, even though connection might be less interesting or clear than in the Honor Roll level.
- Student accurately describes the device( that is literary) (aka “writer’s moves”) discussed
- Student clearly and accurately describes a significant idea through the text overall 1 , although the >may not be a nuanced interpretation. However, the interpretation continues to be abstract, not clichйd.
- Student cites ev >attempts to make use of us into the most useful way
- Student completely explains the connections between details (ev >attempting to make use of words that are signal describe relationships between ideas
As the bullet points get this to rubric look a bit more “analytical,” the truth is that i take advantage of it in holistic way. We have just found that students fine it easier to grasp a rubric this is certainly broken up into pieces, in place of two long and complex sentences that describe essentially the idea that is same. Continuer la lecture de « Take a look at this description of this rubric that is different to get more detail regarding the difference between analytical and holistic rubrics »