A rubric to use with a biographical writing assignment. Students can receive up to four points in eight different areas including a creative title, a clear organizational plan, interesting graphic elements, voice, usage and mechanics,...

All written work should be assessed using a rubric. Using a set of criteria linked to standards not only allows for uniform evaluation, but helps students understand what is important about an assignment and encourages them to reflect on...

This is a PDF of two four-leveled grading rubrics for use with fifth-grade students - one for a multimedia presentation and one for a word processing/desktop publishing project.

Evaluate a response to determine how well it meets the expectations of a rubric. Then revise and edit your work based on the model.

Students can learn how to grade an essay with a rubric in this activity. The essay is a sample from Big History essay called "Early Earth". The goal of this activity is for students to understand the rubric so they can write their own...

Students and teachers can assess their own writing with this compare and contrast rubric.

A rubric to use when writing and evaluating a 4th-grade expository essay. Essays can receive anywhere from one to four points in each of the following areas: Organization/Progression, Development of Ideas, and Use of Language/Conventions.

A rubric to use when writing and evaluating a 4th-grade narrative. Essays can receive anywhere from one to four points in each of the following areas: Organization/Progression, Development of Ideas, and Use of Language/Conventions.

RubiStar is a tool that helps teachers develop rubrics. After students have done the project and the rubric has been used to grade it, you can enter the data into RubiStar to determine which items are problematic for the class as well.

Use an interactive rubric to evaluate areas of strengths and weaknesses in a student's essay on cell phone use in schools. Then compare your responses to another teacher's.

Use an interactive rubric to evaluate areas of strengths and weaknesses in a student's essay on an experience at a skating party. Then compare your responses to another teacher's.

Use an interactive rubric to evaluate areas of strengths and weaknesses in a student's poem comparing school to a watch glass. Then compare your responses to another teacher's.

Determine your standards (logic, creativity, structure, etc.) when assessing student writing. Evaluate three essays using an analytic or holistic rubric and see how your standards compare with your peers.

Specialized but useful rubric geared towards examining journalistic style writing. Provides evaluation guidelines that one teacher uses, with a rubric to evaluate.

Students will explore a physical map showing natural resources in Canada to analyze the impact of the environment on the distribution of natural resources. Students will write about the information they discover using the provided...

Marvin Bartel, Ed.D., provides useful handouts for critiquing artwork and for assessing students' abilities to write and discuss art intelligently.

A WebQuest where students explore microbial diversity by looking at the extreme habitat of the Atlantic White Cedar Swamp. Students will learn about protists through personification theme of Aesop's Fables. At the end of the...