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!) The rubric is not aligned to the task students were given. The students need to be asked how they have experienced peer pressure and peer influence in their own lives. Their writing should be graded on their ideas and how well they were able to provide examples of peer pressure and peer influences. The rubric should also include mechanics, organization, and supporting details but they should be worth less than the ideas section that needs to be added to the rubric.