Creating Rubrics
Create rubrics to use as tools to measure student performance by standards.
For example, an elementary school might create the Language Arts (LA)
rubric
a structured set of grading criteria. For example, an English rubric might contain a criterion for reading comprehension, grammar, and writing. Within the LA rubric, you might
create the following criteria:
- Written Expression
- Oral Expression
- Effort
- Vocabulary
- Grammar
- Reading Comprehension
For informational purposes, you can align each rubric criterion with learning standards, such as standards from your
Teachers can align assignments with specific criteria, and then enter scores from the rating scale for each criterion. At the end of a grade term, Aspen calculates both a trend and traditional average for each student for each criterion.
| Note: For progress and term averages to show the standards-based average on a progress report or report card, you need to define the appropriate transcript definition columns. |
To create a rubric:
