Created by:
Janet Buck, Mel Craig, Jackie Douglas, Amanda Giblin
Tonya Thompson & Laura Wyman
Gray-New Gloucester Middle School
This site was
created as a component of a group project for
EDU 580: Middle Level Education Institute.
EDU 580: Middle Level Education Institute.
For our group project, our team members decided to create generic assessment rubrics that could be used in our classrooms (and the classrooms of our peers) at our school. We created three rubrics that could assess specific content and learned skills in a uniform (and simplified) way. We hope to use the following rubrics to efficiently create assessment tools that will be easily understood by students and provide valuable feedback to teachers.
In the creation of our assessments, we based our work on the skill sets differentiated by Bloom's Taxonomy. We created rubrics for the three highest levels of the taxonomy. Because many of the Maine Learning Results Performance Indicators (PIs) contain the same verbs (or similar wording) and assess the same skills as Bloom's top three skills sets in the taxonomy, the PIs can be assessed by utilizing the rubrics on this page.
These rubrics have been created in the hopes that they will be used to assess a variety of different skills. One wish of the creation team is that students will be able to (whenever possible) create unique products for assessments that match their own academic strengths and interests. (We suggest that students are assessed on many of their skills and not exclusively on their ability to write essays, etc.) We have listed a few examples of these alternate assessments below the analysis, synthesis, and evaluation steps on the taxonomy.
Please feel free to replicate our work for use in your classroom.
