Welcome
Welcome to Learning Rubrics Online Project, serving educators in Newfoundland and Labrador, in the Atlantic Provinces, and around the world!Our goal is to provide an interactive electronic learning and support environment for teachers and others who are involved in the use of analytic scoring rubrics for assessing students' writing, reading, visual literacy, and other skills through Department of Education criterion referenced tests.
Roberta Hammett, Faculty of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland
General Information
We have created this comprehensive rubric site to help pre-service teachers, educators, parents, and students themselves learn about assessing with rubrics. Criterion referenced tests administered annually by the Department of Education Newfoundland and Labrador to students in grades 3, 6, and 9 are scored by provincial panels using rubrics/analytic rating scores. This site provides opportunities for teachers, their students, parents, and prospective teachers to learn about the tests and how students' responses are evaluated. By practicing scoring a piece of writing or reading response and then comparing the results with others' scores, we hope users will learn about this assessment practice. Parents and students may learn how to improve writing scores for assessments similar to our Province's required reading, viewing, and writing assessments.The Council of Atlantic Ministers of Education and Training (CAMET) has suggested that analytic rating scales be used to assess learning outcomes and products. Such rating scales or rubrics have been used by all four Atlantic Provinces to assess writing at four levels (primary/grade 3, elementary/grade 6, intermediate/grade 9, and secondary high school/grade 12).
In the Atlantic Provinces, teams of teachers and Department of Education personnel developed the rubrics for scoring the writing samples submitted by schools throughout the provinces. In each province, a panel of teachers was assembled to score the writing samples and provide a rationale for each score. Over time, assessments of other language arts outcomes have been developed. In Newfoundland and Labrador, the analytic scoring rubrics, some writing samples, and the provincial panel's score rationale were published in two reports: Primary English Language Arts Assessment: Exemplars Booklet and Elementary English Language Arts Assessment: Student Exemplars 2001-2002. These reports and other Department of Education documents are the source of materials presented on this Web site.