Using Rubrics to Guide Self Assessment Toolkit

How can we bring learners into making use of rubrics to benefit their learning? How can rubrics become a trusted guide for learners to self-evaluate and improve their work? This toolkit focuses on how to grow learners’ capacity to become more self-assessing by examining and learning how to use the scoring descriptors in a rubric to improve their performance. Included in this toolkit: Tool 1: How to Revise Rubrics to Promote Self-Assessment When learners participate in the revision of the grading tool, they give voice to what they value as high quality performance. This tool helps to guide learners as they work to revise rubric descriptors to make the language clearer, more precise, and growth-oriented. Tool 2: Selecting a Rubric that Works With Your Learners The goal of any effective rubric is to identify what quality looks like in language that is clear, accessible, and actionable for learners. This tool aids teachers in choosing a scoring tool that best matches the work to be scored