Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Rubric criteria Mrs. Collier spent numerous instructional hours with students reading a text about peer pressure versus peer influence. The students then were given several questions to prompt their thinking and asked to discuss the text in groups and use their own background knowledge and experience to support how they felt about the questions asked. Mrs. Collier planned to ask the students to write several paragraphs about the text, and grade the paragraphs based on mechanics, a topic sentence, two supporting details, and the concluding sentence as a summative assessment. Do the instructions and rubric criteria match? If not, what other items should Mrs. Collier add to the rubric? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) First of all Mrs. Collier needs to provide the rubric for the students prior to giving the assignment and the assessment. When providing the rubric prior to the assignment or assessment,it provides the students with a clear picture of the teacher's expectations. The rubric should have been provided and explained to the students to ensure that they had a clear understanding of what was expected. No, I feel that the rubric reflect the questions that the students addressed while reading the book. As is the rubric is very general and needs to be more specific as to the information they gathered during their reading.