Rubrics 4.1.2

Providing an effective rubric is important to represent expectations of student performance for the assignment.  Rubrics are beneficial in any classroom.  However, with limited communication prior to assignments, it is especially important to provide these rubrics in virtual classrooms.  These rubrics allow students to know what is expected of them.  It also gives teachers a guide to use to grade each student fairly.  I have created a rubric for an assignment that I had my students complete to prove certain quadrilaterals were parallelograms using Coordinate Geometry.

I set up the rubric this way so that students can understand the expectations of the assignment.  The completion section is very clear, and students know they must complete every problem in order to receive full points in that section.  I showed students an example of a similar assignment in which the student received 4's on every section.  The assignment was complete with detailed description of what work they did, and a proof to accompany each conjecture about the quadrilaterals.  Students who receive 3's in the first 3 categories are still competent in the material, but may have a harder time articulating the steps they are taking to determine the specific name of the quadrilateral.  Students who are receiving 1's and 2's need to revisit this topic with the teacher in a more individualized setting.