Using criteria-based rubrics for peer and student self-scoring really does matter!

Using rubrics in your teaching really matters to ensuring that your students work harder than you do. Having the students peer-assess and self-assess using the rubric forces the students to grade their own work before the teacher grades it.

Some times teachers say, "Well the students grade themselves too high or too low so it doesn't really work that well".  Always outsmart those students by giving them a grade on how well they can use the rubric to correctly score their own work and their peer's work.  That way you will teach them what to look for and they will be able to evaluate their work effectively.

Using student's work from the class, with their permission of course, to review and score as a class is a great technique to teach students this important rubric scoring skill.

Give them the rubrics, ask them to score themselves and give them a grade or bonus points for matching their self-score with the teacher's score to make sure they work harder than you do!

Criteria-based feedback truly can matter to student learning.  Kathy