What is a rubric? A grading rubric is a scoring guide that is used to objectively grade student work. Rubrics are an example of a tool used in both face-to-face courses and online courses.
Benefits: Grading rubrics offer benefits for the student and teacher. From the student perspective, a rubric is a guide for how an assignment will be graded. It highlights the caliber of work that is to be expected, as well as the weight to be applied to each assignment component. From the teacher's viewpoint, rubrics eliminate ambiguity. They are designed to take the allegation of subjective grading out of the dispute. An ideal rubric is one in which multiple teachers objectively apply the grading criteria to the same student work and end up with approximately the same grade result. Because rubrics are made available to the students prior to doing their work, they are thought to promote self-evaluation among the learners. Here are some examples of rubrics, as well as tools that will help you create and use rubrics.
What should an ePortfolio include? Read the post on Developing an Authentic ePortfolio.
Common Sense Media's Top Pick List of Student Portfolio Apps and Websites
ePortfolios are digital collections of student learning that are dynamically updated and shared over the Internet. They can be used for stand-alone lessons but are typically compiled to tell a story of a student's academic career. There are a variety of fee-based services but the following tools can also be adapted.
View the student ePortfolio examples from Blue ridge Virtual Governors School.