Virtual Trip Rubric

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Working with Rubrics

Rubrics are a means of providing students with feedback and assessment that address the performance of the student in the creation of a project and the process for creating that project. Assessing "process" is often difficult, but a rubric sets out the behaviors that are considered beginning, intermediate, and advanced so a student will know the expectations. Check out the following websites on rubric creation:

• http://webquest.sdsu.edu/rubrics/weblessons.htm

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html

http://www.odyssey.on.ca/~elaine.coxon/rubrics.htm

How about a rubric to assess your rubric? http://www.idecorp.com/assessrubric.pdf

Don't forget to look at these rubric generators
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

Directions for creating a V-Trip Study Rubric

1. Open a Word 2000 document.

2. Use Format>Document (MAC) or File>Page Setup (PC) and set top, bottom, left, right margins to .5 "

3. Use File>Page Setup (MAC) or File>Page Setup>Paper Size (PC) to set the orientation to Landscape.

4. Type a title for the page. Make the text of the title larger than 20 point, bold, and center the title. Be sure to include the grade level of the students who will be taking this virtual trip.

5. Type a subtitle for the page that states "Evaluation Rubric"

6. Press return two times.

7. Insert a table. Use Table>Insert>Table from the menu bar. In the dialog box that comes up, type in the number of columns and rows you need for the rubric you are designing. (Minimum is 5 columns and 3 rows.) The quality being assessed is written in the first column. The next column is for beginning skills (1 point) and the description of the behavior that depicts beginning qualities is written here. Follow the pattern for the 2 point (intermediate), 3 point (advanced), and 4 point (exemplary) columns (or vice-versa).

8. Insert a header with the name of the v-trip on the left and a date code on the right:

• Header is inserted using View>header and footer from the menu bar
• Date codes automatically change this date to the current date and are created using Insert>date from the menu bar

9. Insert a footer with the page number centered:

• Footer is inserted using View>header and footer from the menu bar.
• Scroll down to the footer, and using the AutoText insert from the Header/footer menu that pops up when the header/footer is viewed, insert the page number. Be sure it is centered.

10. Save the file to your vft folder as [yoursecnumber][lastname]vft2.doc.

11. CANNOT DO THIS STEP AT THIS TIME:
Print the file to your bp folder as vt2.pdf. (Note: At the present time, we do not have the software in our classroom to convert the files to pdf files. You must use Dr. Figg's laptop or the Dell machine set up in the other lab. You will be given classtime to do the conversions.

A rubric should look something like this--except you will fill in what the criteria are: