Need for development in the areas of spreadsheets and graphing applications
0% of teachers use graphing in assessment of students
One-third of the teachers surveyed used spreadsheets 20% of the time
100% of the teachers utilize rubrics 20% of the time
Acquisition of data needs to be applicable to both students and teacher
RubiStar is an online tool to help teachers to develop rubrics in a timely manner
Customizable rubrics include areas such as oral projects, science, math, reading, and research and writing
Feature entitled QuizStar that will allow online quizzes to be created and allow the results to be organized
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets to record data of problems correct and incorrect on a formal or informal assessment
Data would easily be modified into bar graphs
Bar graphs would show which problems students were successful on and what problems students experienced trouble with
Rational
Rubistar is recommended for three reasons:
Rubrics are already organized and simply need to be customized
Organizing the rubrics would not create a significant time commitment to distract from schedules and commitments
Rubrics could be adapted for lessons that are already intended to be taught
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets:
Use of the graph would give teachers important information about which standards would need to be revisited and focused on before new information was introduced
Would allow teachers to view individually struggling students
Graphs would show teachers whether lack of success was individual or with a particular concept
Students would be able to view the graphs after an assessment to set personal and group goals for the next assessment
Easy to navigate and may be a tool that has been used before for a professional task
According to the survey spreadsheets were used 20% of the time by teacher two for assessing while graphing was used 0% of the time by 100% of the teachers
Rational
Graphs