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Ontario’s CurriculumOntario’s Curriculum
When Ontario’s Ministry of Education introduced the new curriculum, the guidelines included a new, standardized way of assessing and evaluating students.
The Ministry guidelines were very specific about how a rubric should be structured and the language it contains. In addition, every rubric needed to explicitly state which curriculum expectations were being measured.
The creation of a well written, effective rubric can be very time consuming. What could be done to reduce the amount of time it takes to create these assessments without sacrificing the quality?
The ExpectationsThe Expectations
To begin with, we scanned and entered every
course and expectation in the curriculum. We
then created a powerful database which linked
courses with their general and specific
expectations.
The CriteriaThe Criteria
Next, we hired a staff of almost 30 teachers to write Next, we hired a staff of almost 30 teachers to write
thousands of rich and diverse criteria for teachers to choose thousands of rich and diverse criteria for teachers to choose
from. from.
Our writers took the utmost care to ensure that the criteria Our writers took the utmost care to ensure that the criteria
meet the ministry guidelines. The criteria:meet the ministry guidelines. The criteria:
Describe achievement in terms of success, not failureDescribe achievement in terms of success, not failure
Are either qualitative or quantitative but not both Are either qualitative or quantitative but not both
Are fresh, creative and original.Are fresh, creative and original.
The Rubric BuilderThe Rubric Builder
Now you know all of the work that went into Now you know all of the work that went into creating the database of courses, creating the database of courses, expectations and criteria.expectations and criteria.
Let’s take a look at the actual program and Let’s take a look at the actual program and how easy it is to turn all that information into how easy it is to turn all that information into a first class rubric with a first class rubric with The Rubric Builder.The Rubric Builder.
The Information ScreenThe Information Screen
The information page contains your
school name and a list of all the
teachers who have used the program.
These are stored in the program and
only need be entered the first time.
This screen is also where you will
provide a name and description for
your new rubric.
At the bottom of your screen, you will
choose the grade level and course
before continuing to the next screen.
The Expectations ScreenThe Expectations Screen
This screen will list all of the general
and specific expectations for your
chosen course taken directly from the
Ontario Ministry of Education
curriculum. Double click or use the
arrows to add or remove expectations.
You also have the ability to search for
and choose expectations from other
courses. This is very useful on those
occasions when you will have inter-
disciplinary assignments.
Criteria ScreenCriteria ScreenOn this screen you will select the criteria that
will be used in the assessment. To make it
easier to find the desired criteria you can
limit the list by task or category. You will
probably also want to limit the criteria to
those which are relevant to your chosen
expectations.
Select criteria by dragging the text into one
of four categories boxes: Knowledge,
Thinking, Communication or Application. You
can also click on the arrow to have the
criteria added to the most appropriate box.
This screen will also allow you to create your
own criteria and level descriptors for this
rubric.
View/Edit ScreenView/Edit Screen
This screen allows you to view and edit
the rubric before it is printed. You may
double-click on any of the squares to
begin editing the text it contains. You
may add custom criteria at this stage
as well.
This is the screen which will allow you
to have complete control over how the
rubric is worded. All of the criteria and
the level descriptors are completely
editable to ensure that you get the
exact wording that is right for your
rubric.
Print / Export ScreenPrint / Export ScreenThis final screen will allow you to preview
and print your completed rubric. You
may also export to Word and
WordPerfect in order to further refine
your rubric before printing it
There are three other forms which may
be printed if you find them relevant to
your particular rubric:
•“Teacher's Companion Information
Sheet”
• “Leveled Marking Sheet”
•“Checklist Marking Sheet”
•Software that is incredibly fast and simple to learn.
•The actual Ontario Ministry of Education expectations are included and linked to the
criteria.
•Thousands of rich and diverse criteria and level descriptions for you to choose from.
•All criteria were written by teachers and adhere to the Ministry of Education guidelines.
•All criteria are searchable by task, expectation, course, achievement and key word.
•Powerful and flexible. Your rubric will look exactly the way you want it to.
•Choose from 8 different ways to print or export to Microsoft® Word and Corel
WordPerfect®.
•Print a leveled marking sheet, perfect for marking oral presentations.
What makes The Rubric Builder so great?
•Elementary, Grades 1 - 8
•Secondary, Grades 9 – 12
•School and board licenses available
Versions:
•Hundreds of schools and thousands of teachers already using The Rubric
Builder.
•Site license permits all faculty to use the software at home.
•Unlimited E-mail and telephone tech support for one year.
•Available since 1999; Time tested.
Buy with Confidence:
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