Unit Three:Rubrics for Assessments in Health Classes
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be able to use internet to create rubrics.
- Participants will demonstrate the use of rubrics in assessing a health poster.
Rubrics are an important tool for assessing understanding in a classroom. Rubistar is a free online Rubric maker where teachers can make new rubrics or choose from pre-made rubrics on many subjects. Please go to http://rubistar.4teachers.org to practice making a rubric that you can choose for your own classroom.
The steps in creating a rubric are as follows:
- Go to Rubistar rubric website
- Create a free account
- Click on Create a New Rubric
- Choose Making a New Poster - This link will allow you to choose the aspects of the poster that you want to assign points to, if you don't like what is offered, you can write your own.
Students are often asked to work together on projects in a Health classroom to create posters to inform the school population about various illnesses and disorders. These posters are displayed in the hallways as information for other students. The presentation of the poster and its elements is important as well as the assessment of the collaboration involved in making the poster.
Another rubric on this website that will help with assessing a health poster is the rubric maker for Collaborative Work Skills. This rubric is available on the Create a New Rubric page and can be used either a participation grade or to give the students a guideline for your expectations in the classroom.This rubric has categories that explain the skills involved in a collaborative project which are:
- Contribution
- Quality of Work
- Time-management
- Problem solving
- Pride
- Attitude
- Preparedness
- Focus on Tasks
- Monitor Group Effectiveness
- Working with others
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