Understanding Rubrics and Portfolios

Criteria

• Rubric Types:
  • Holistic Rubric: Provides a general overall impression of performance.
  • Analytic Rubric: Offers specific criteria for performance levels.
  • General Rubric: Assesses broad tasks and skills.
  • Task-Specific Rubric: Focuses on specific skills relevant to a given problem.
• Portfolio: A collection of student work.
  • Purposeful/Organized: Organized to show student growth or development.
• Portfolio Types:
  • Working: Shows development throughout a project.
  • Showcase: Highlights the best work.
  • Assessment: Used to evaluate achievement (e.g., tests).
  • Process: Documents the learning process. Includes evidence and reflections.
• Portfolio Elements:
  • Cover Letter
  • Table of Contents
  • Entries
  • Dates
  • Drafts
  • Reflections
  • Core (required)
  • Optional (personalized)

Portfolio Contents

• Artifacts: Outputs from the classroom.
• Reproductions: Student work outside the classroom.
• Attestation: Personal notes and teacher evaluations.
• Productions: Student goals, reflections, and captions.
• E-portfolio: Digital collection: essays, posters, photos, videos, art.

Other

• PSGM CAO (Simpson): Includes 6 levels of learning starting from perception and ending with originality;
• Bloom's Taxonomy (Psychomotor): Includes imitation, manipulation, precision, articulation, and naturalization.
• Bloom's Taxonomy (Affective): Includes receiving, responding, valuing, organizing, and internalization.
• Cognitive Domain: Includes remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. This was also presented as 6 levels in the cognitive domain
• Affective Assessment:
  • Semantic Differential Scales: measures opinions using bipolar adjectives
  • Likert Scales: uses a 5-point scale measuring the degree of agreement.
  • Checklists: Identifies the presence or absence of characteristics or traits.
• Socio Taxonomy (Big + Collis):
  • Pre-structural: No knowledge
  • Uni-structural: Limited knowledge
  • Multi-structural: Several ideas about a concept
  • Relational: Concisely presents ideas with connections.
  • Extended Abstract: Generates new information.

This quiz explores the various types of rubrics and portfolios, including their purposes and essential elements. It covers holistic and analytic rubrics, as well as the features of different portfolio types such as working, showcase, and process portfolios. Test your knowledge of how portfolios can reflect student growth and assess learning outcomes.