Sentences with phrase «holistic rubrics for»

Not exact matches

For example, a holistic rubric might describe an A essay using the following criteria: «The essay has a clear, creative thesis statement and a consistent overall argument.

A holistic rubric breaks an assignment down into general levels at which a student can perform, assigning an overall grade for each level.

Students are still given clear explanations for the grades they earned, but there is much more room to account for a student taking a project in a direction that a holistic or analytic rubric didn't or couldn't account for.

For example, many writing rubrics (see example) are holistic because it is not always easy to disentangle clarity from organization or content from presentation.

But holistic rubrics can also be employed for more substantial assignments.

In one, Herman, Gearhart, and Baker (1993) were able to get satisfactory levels of interrater agreement for portfolios containing only narrative and summary writing, but they discovered that students» scores were substantially different across different contexts (standard writing prompt vs. portfolio work; analytic vs. holistic rubrics; scoring of individual pieces vs. the total portfolio; narrative vs. summaries).

If point systems, rubrics, or holistic assessment methods are used for other activities, these methods may also be used to evaluate students» extended projects.