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  Evaluating Internet Research and Multimedia Projects:
How to Hit a Moving Target!
By Caroline McCullen, Instructional Technologist, SAS inSchool
Collaborating Partner, MEGA 

1. Why Rubrics? 
   • Project Examples - How Would You Evaluate These?
     • Books Alive - PowerPoint Book Reports, MidLink Magazine; Click to advance through slide shows.  (Requires PowerPoint Animated Viewer)
       • Authentic Results
     • Chemical Compounds - Gray Rushin's Chemistry Class, Cary AcademyCary Academy, Cary, NC (Requires FREE Chime Viewer)
     • Periodic Chart - Gray Rushin's Chemistry Class, Cary Academy, Cary, NC (Requires FREE Chime Viewer)
2. What *exactly* is a Rubric? 
   • "Taking Aim:  Evaluating Students in the Digital Age," Caroline McCullen, Technology & Learning, April, 1999.
   • Let's explore these thoughts.
3. Rubric Examples
   • Book Report Rubric (Fiction)
     • PDF Version
     • Excel Spreadsheet Version Decompress with
   • Multimedia Project Rubrics
   • MidLink Magazine's Rubric Collection - Samples, models, and templates
   • The Rubric Bank - Compiled by Chicago Public Schools (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
   • Alternative Assessment Resources - Chicago Public Schools
   • MidLink Magazine's Rubrics - Free for the download
     
4. A Process for constructing  effective rubrics (Animated PowerPoint Slide)
   
5. Finding Your Personal Context:  Where is Your Curriculum Target?
   • Start with your Standards
     • Curriculum Pathways™ by SAS inSchool^{® -} Teaching ideas and Web resources linked to state curriculum (T&L Award Winner!)
     • Achieve.org - Searchable Database of Standards
     • McRel  Standards Consortium - Searchable Database
     • Putnam Valley Annotated List of State Standards
6. Developing Effective Performance Tasks
   • Does the task match the desired outcomes?
   • Is it clearly defined? (Find help in Rubric Construction Kit below)
   • Does it include choices?
   • Does it require critical thinking?
     • Task Oriented Question Wheel (Based on Bloom's- St. Edwards University)
     • Bloom's Chart - Tasks and Products PDF (University of Nebraska)
     • Critical Thinking  - Applying Bloom's (LaGrange College)
   • Is it authentic
   • Is it broad enough to measure several outcomes at once? Multiple skills?
   • Is it fair and free from bias?
   • Is the outcome really worth constructing a rubric to evaluate it?

• From skills and Knowledge to Understanding
• Enduring Understanding

• Would the proposed performance task provide a valid measure of the targeted understanding?
• Examples of performance tasks

   7.  Rubric Construction Kit

• Rubric Checklist - Helpful guidelines for constructing effective rubrics
• Rubric Vocabulary - Aids for defining dimensions
• Rubric Template  - Use to create your own rubrics Decompress with

    8.  Have a Rubric Festival!  Share Your Masterpiece with a neighbor!

Works Cited

1. Chicago Public Schools Instructional Intranet. Chicago: Chicago Board of Education, 2000. Nov. 10, 2000.  <http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/>.

2. Jackson, Anthony W., Gayle Davis. Turning Points 2000. Educating Adolescents in the 21st Century. New York, NY: Teachers College Press, 2000.

3. McTighe, Jay, Grant Wiggins. The Understanding By Design Handbook. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum and Development, 1999.