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Resources for Using Rubrics in the Middle Grades

Looking for help with rubrics? With a focus on the middle grades, we’ve compiled tips, sample rubrics, and resources to help you design and implement rubrics for assessment.

Designing and Using Rubrics

This article from Edutopia’s Assessment Professional Development Guide explains the benefits of using rubrics, describes different types of rubrics, and offers tips on getting started.

Blogger Andrew Miller shares his experiences and suggestions for creating and using rubrics that will make students' -- and teachers' -- lives much easier.

Math teacher Lauren Hobbs describes factors to take into account in designing rubrics and the benefits of having students work together to do a mid-project rubric review, a strategy that can be useful for students in all grades.

In this book chapter, Susan M. Brookhart breaks down what rubrics can be used to assess, the advantages and disadvantages of different types of rubrics, and why rubrics are important. Tracey Muise’s review of Brookhart’s book on MiddleWeb includes specific takeaways for teachers of the middle grades.

Grant Wiggins discusses the ins and outs of creating quality rubrics and suggests that while bad rubrics shut down creativity, good rubrics have the potential to free up student creativity and initiative.

Jennifer Gonzalez has put together an illustrated guide to several different rubric types. For each type, she explains the basic structure, looks at the pros and cons, and offers a blank template that can be downloaded and customized.

Sample Rubrics from Schools that Work

Though originally used as part of an arts-integrated lesson for 8th-grade mathematics , this rubric could also be adapted for other grades and subjects. For more about arts integration at Bates Middle School , check out Edutopia's Schools that Work package on “ Transformation Through Art Integration .”

The School of the Future in New York develops and uses its own assessment techniques, including unannounced assessments in order to measure student learning at regular intervals. For more insight into how this school uses authentic assessment to provide a window into student learning, check out the video on authentic assessment for humanities , featuring teacher Sarah Kaufmann’s 6th-grade class, and the video on authentic assessment for algebra , featuring teacher Ben Mook’s 7th-grade class.

This Socratic Seminar Rubric from KIPP King High School includes standards of performance for inner circle and outer circle participants. For more about how KIPP King encourages the development of critical-thinking skills, see Edutopia's coverage in " The KIPP King Collegiate High School Story ." Also, check out this resource from MiddleWeb, “ Socratic Seminars in the Middle ” for advice about how to implement Socratic Seminars at the middle school level.

These rubrics, from an 8th-grade English class at YES Prep North Central , include criteria for evaluating different aspects of a student self-guided project on To Kill a Mockingbird . For more about this school and their mission to send every student to college, check out Edutopia's Schools that Work coverage in “ College Bound Culture in Houston .”

Rubric Tips, Tricks, and Strategies

Though many of these tips, tricks, and strategies come from sources that mention high school contexts, the methods discussed are also relevant to middle school classrooms and teachers.

Guest blogger Michelle Lampinen describes how she reverse-engineered a rubric for student assessment that includes links and QR codes.

Are you struggling to get through all of your grading? In the featured video, Jennifer Gonzalez explains how to use rubric codes to speed up the process of providing students with written feedback.

Teacher Dave Orphal describes his experiences involving his students in the creation of their grading rubric -- the process, the results, and his reflections on the experience.

Jay Atwood has created a helpful walkthrough of Goobric , a Chrome extension that can be used in conjunction with Doctopus to facilitate the process of scoring student work with rubrics and sharing feedback via Google Drive .

Teacher Self-Evaluation With Rubrics

Blogger and middle school teacher Heather Wolpert-Gawron describes how she uses rubrics to help her determine whether or not her assessments are meaningful for students.

Teacher Mary Tarashuk explains how she conducts self-evaluation using rubrics; to take a look at the rubrics she discusses, download " Teacher Evaluation Rubrics ," from The Marshall Memo .

This list, developed by Expeditionary Learning and used at King Middle School , defines six areas of focus teachers can use to self-rate when planning project-based learning. For more about project-based learning at King Middle School and other schools, check out “ Project-Based Learning in Maine ” from Edutopia’s Schools that Work.

Additional Resources

The Buck Institute for Education has a library of rubrics that can be used to assess project-based learning; they even have a rubric for rubrics that can help you avoid common pitfalls when creating rubrics.

This post describes a series of rubrics inspired by Carol Dweck's research on growth mindsets , created by Jon Bender, a former middle school teacher. Take a look at his two status and progress rubrics , intended to help students measure personal learning progress and growth. The New Tech Network , a nonprofit that works with schools and districts to help reform learning through project-based learning, has also developed a middle school rubric for measuring student growth .

Kathy Schrock has compiled a large number of links to rubrics that work for various types of assignments and projects; she also includes links to information about rubrics and rubric creation tools.

How do you use rubrics in your classroom? Are there other types of resources you'd like to see, or do you know of other useful resources? Please share your feedback in the comments.

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Universal Rubric for Literary Analysis

Sometimes I cheer myself up by watching Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals while I’m grading papers.

I had collected the essays a few weeks prior. They lay on my desk…ungraded. The dark cloud of ungraded essays cast a shadow over my soul. I sat down at my desk. I “accidentally” nudged them toward the edge of my desk, just above the trashcan. I stopped, put my hands behind my head, leaned back on my chair. While contemplating how nice it would be to rid myself of this curse, I leaned back too far, banged my head on the floor, and lay unconscious.

I was awakened by Aristotle. He just stood, shaking his head reprovingly, without saying a word, which is good because I don’t understand Greek. He picked up the mini-statue of himself off my desk and struck my skull with it, knocking me out again.

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When I woke up, I saw on my desk a literary analysis rubric and a note in Greek, which translates as follows: Here is a rubric for a literary analysis essay. It will make grading this stack of essays slightly better than ramming your eye with a soup ladle.

To prove this story’s true, I’ve provided a copy of the rubric he left: Literary Analysis Rubric .

Tips for Using this Rubric

The literary analysis rubric is self-explanatory, but here are some things you may want to prompt your students with before the writing begins or between the first draft and next draft. For a more in-depth examination of how to write a literary analysis , follow the link.

Following is what I would write on the board or PowerPoint or whatever.

• Make sure your essay has an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. The last sentence of your introduction should be your thesis statement. It may look something like this: “The primary theme in (author’s name, title of literary work) is _________________. If you prefer a more active voice, the thesis statement might look something like this: (In (title of literary work), (the author) develops the theme that _____________________________ through his/her use of _____________, ______________, and ________________.
• Make sure the thesis statement encompasses the theme–no more and no less– and that the theme is relevant to a modern audience and to a potential audience years in the future. In other words the theme uses evidence from the literary work that applies to situations in the “real world.”
• In the body of the essay, be sure to include specific examples, and be sure to explain how these examples relate to the theme you stated in the thesis statement.
• Be sure to use transitions to logically connect ideas.

(For more on teaching thesis statements , click it)

What about Non-Fiction Literary Analysis?

This rubric works just as well with non-fiction literature. Instead of using the term “theme,” you can employ “argument.” In addition, you may want to review logos, pathos, and ethos along with logical fallacies .

In case you missed it before: Here is the Rubric for Literary Analysis .

This rubric takes care of the following common core standards.

• Common Core Writing Standard 1. Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
• Common Core Writing Standard 2 . Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
• W.9-10.4   Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in W.9-10.1-3.)
• W.9-10.5   Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of L.9-10.1-3.)
• W.9-10.9   Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis.

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