Rubrics

Empowering Students’ Performance During Self and Peer-Assessment in Lower Grades

Abstract

During my experience as an elementary teacher, I have come to realize of the importance of assessment as an essential part in the teaching-learning process. Involving our young students in this process, although highly beneficial, it is proved to be very complicated due to a lack of self-managing skills. In order to overcome that handicap, we can provide our students with a tool that assists them to focus on the assessing task by facilitating a set of expectations and guidelines: a rubric. In addition to the use for assessing, we can also use the rubrics to take advantage of the clear expectations provided by it in favor of enhancing our students’ performance on the soon to be assessed task due to the explicit of the objectives.