Making Rubric

Rubric? Yup, that word exists in our life in SSE. I know nothing about assessment by rubric in Elementary and High School, but since the first semester in SSE, I began to deal with it because so many assessments assessed based on rubric. Day by day, finally I experienced to make my own rubric, I made it in PETA class last week. When I saw a rubric, I always think "ohhhh, it's easy to make an assessment like this, I just need to make some criteria, then rate it to the number 4, 3, 2, 1, and ect," but the fact says NO! Everyone says "making a rubric is hard," and that's really true.

One of the hard thing in making the rubric is determining the criteria. It's like the link of the criterias with our learning objective. I mean, are the criterias appropriate with our goals? Also about the assessment itself, how to determine to get 4 points, how to get 3, 2, 1. Let say we have 5 items to get 4 points, then we cannot just use "if the students only show 4 items, it should get 3 points, if only 3 items it would be 2 points" or something like that because it will just make us confuse. It needs to be cleared, really really cleared so that it won't make us confused. Another hard-thing is providing as many as criterias because if we only provide 4 criterias then the best score for each 4 points, then the maximum point is just 4x4 = 16 points. Believe it or not, it could be objectiveless because the range for the assessment is quiet narrow. So, more criterias to be assessed, more objective assessment it will be.

So, what do you think guys? Let's learn how to make a better rubric for our future :D


Ahmad Apriyanto
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