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Meet the Single Point Rubric

…rubric but in the big picture the thing that is missing is inconsequential. If you make your multipoint rubric not specific to avoid the pitfalls mentioned above, then the rubric no longer does what it’s meant to, which is to remove objectivity. I don’t like the idea of writing feedback on each line of a single point rubric. Waaaay too much time for not enough gain. Feedback is only useful when the person receiving the feedback had to do something with it. I would suggest being picky and only leave written feedback on one or two lines. I mostly use…

Episode 13: Could You Teach Without Grades?

…don’t just put the letters in. There’s always feedback. Gonzalez: Okay. Sackstein: And then the kids have a chance to come to me and have a conversation about the feedback that they got. Then they can adjust as needed to try to move to the next thing. So we’re doing that all semester long. The projects are kind of being tracked. There is no formal homework because they’re doing the homework that goes with the project at a pace that works for them. My AP kids write on blogs as well for their reading. That I’m trying to foster digital…

Episode 175 Transcript

…breakout rooms in Zoom. Those were great for this, but this shows up a lot in my conversations with students or in our reflections. So if a student gets feedback on a specific task or assignment they were doing, the piece I like about this is they take that feedback, and then we have a reflective space where they sort of step away from the assignment. They read the feedback. They process it. They step away from the assignment, and they use that to go back to this learning progression, this HyperRubric, and really say, okay, based on what I’ve…

How to Turn Rubric Scores into Grades

…notice that the space for scores has been left blank. There’s a reason for that: When students are given both feedback and number or letter grades, their motivation often drops and they tend to ignore the written feedback (Butler & Nisan, 1986). My own experience has proved this to be true; I have often spent hours giving written feedback on student writing, but found they often ignored that. Now I know this was because the feedback also included a grade. No-grades advocate Alfie Kohn, in his piece From Degrading to De-Grading, recommends that teachers who want to avoid this effect…

Know Your Terms: Holistic, Analytic, and Single-Point Rubrics

…move to a holistic rubric, and it made grading way faster, but more importantly, I thought the numerical grade was much more accurate and consistent. (Score 6 would get a 95, 5 would be 85, etc., and I would give + or – for 3 more or less points). For feedback, I would annotate and underline/circle the parts of the criteria that they struggled in or did well in and left an end comment. And while I had them turn in a draft that I would give feedback on, I didn’t use the rubric for the draft feedback. Just comments…

A Few Ideas for Dealing with Late Work

…an assignment, they get timely teacher feedback, and they use that feedback to improve. In many cases, teachers allow students to re-do and resubmit assignments based on that feedback. So a logical consequence of late work could be the loss of that opportunity: Several teachers mentioned that their policy is to accept late work for full credit, but only students who submit work on time will receive feedback or the chance to re-do it for a higher grade. Those who hand in late work must accept whatever score they get the first time around. 2. A Separate Work Habits Grade…

Episode 99: Six Strategies to Quality-Check Your Tech

…through it and that delayed feedback after they had put in a lot, it was crushing. GONZALEZ: Yeah. GUPTA: It was the kind of thing where it’s like, this is not motivating for me. And then, you know, they’d get the one out of 10 and then there’d be like, oh, and here’s all these tips and kind of hints and whatever. But then they have to go back one by one. Just the design of that without instant feedback — GONZALEZ: Yeah. GUPTA: — was soul-crushing for our students. GONZALEZ: Yeah. And so the feedback was just sort of…

Using Learning Stories for Student Reflection

…forward into our next unit as I had in previous years, I planned out an entire “feedback lesson” in which reflection would be centered rather than tacked on last-minute. This lesson — which you can see via the slide deck here from our first experience this past year — included the following activities: Students reflecting on their process prior to getting their results and sharing those reflections with a small group Students getting a chance to walk through “feedback trends” as an entire class, anticipating which whole-class trend might apply to their individual writing and once again sharing their thinking…

Episode 152: Creating Moments of Genuine Connection Online

…I’ve read in the last month of my life. They basically, they were working with college students, college distance students, and one group received feedback on their work through writing, and the other group received it via audio. This is Ice, Philips, Curtis and Wells. It’s a 2007 study. I’ll send you that link. GONZALEZ: Yeah, we’ll get that link. STUART: Yep, yep. Jenn, this is crazy. The students in the audio feedback group received just as good of teaching, just as good of feedback, they only received it through audio. They were significantly more satisfied with the feedback they…