If your block has a written response and you do not hand score it, your report is incomplete and your students look worse than they are.
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If we cannot agree on a score, neither can the report.
If we cannot agree on a score, neither can the report.
Calibration is not about being strict. It is about scoring the same way your colleagues do.
SEE IT IN ACTION
Item 7: three students, three scores
Item 7: three students, three scores
Explain why 3/8 + 2/8 = 5/8 and not 5/16. Worth 2 points.
Score Rubric Students Anchor Response
Score Rubric Students Anchor Response
2 Explains what the denominator names 4 “The 8 tells how many pieces the whole got cut into. That does not change when you put pieces together.”
1 Correct conclusion, no reasoning 11 “It is 5/8. I know because I did it that way in class.”
0 Added denominators, restated or blank 9 “You add the tops, and you add the bottoms. So it is 5/16.”
Eleven students got the right answer and could not say why. Only the written item shows that.
TRY IT IN 10 MINUTES
Calibrate yourself
Calibrate yourself
Cover the score column. Score the three anchors. Did you match?
Pull three of your own students' responses. Initials only.
Score each, then compare to the anchors.
Unsure? Find the rubric words that decide it.
Write one feedback question for each score.
Frames and Templates
Feedback, one question per score
Feedback, one question per score
Score Ask the student
Score Ask the student
2 "Does your rule work for 2/5 + 1/5. Prove it"
1 "Discuss with a classmate who thinks it is 5/16."
0 "Show 3/8 with a fraction strip. What does the 8
tell you?
Calibrating with team: read the rubric aloud, score alone, reveal together, discuss only the differences, save an anchor.
Calibrating with team: read the rubric aloud, score alone, reveal together, discuss only the differences, save an anchor.
COMMON TRAPS
What trips people up
What trips people up
Scoring the answer
5/8 is correct, but the rubric scores the reasoning.
Reading into the answer
Score only what is on the page.
The last paper you scored
Compare to the anchors instead.
Undefined words
Agree as a team on what “explains” means.
Feedback is a question the student has to answer. “Good job” is not feedback.
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Tools
Tools
Smarter Annotated Response Tool (SmART)
See how student writing is scored: response types, interactive rubrics, and rationales.Where you score constructed responses.
Writing Rubrics
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