In today's podcast, I'm going to share the rubric I use to allow students to perform daily self-evaluations. The rubric and a student example are in the same excel workbook at this eboard site for my classes.
Obviously, as a computer literacy teacher, it's pretty easy for me to have my students update their excel gradebook every day. However, when I taught math (which seems like decades ago, but was truly only four years ago), my students performed daily (most days) self-evaluations. I think it would be completely manageable for any core teacher to reserve a computer lab one day each week to update their self-evaluation gradebooks.
I certainly believe that if we tell students that being prompt and prepared for class are important aspects to learning, they should be allowed to reflect on their proficiency in those areas as well as on their participation and behavior. The trick is defining each of those areas in a concrete way so they get it. More importantly, I've found that giving the students a piece of the evaluation pie gives them more ownership and buy-in to the process.
Any questions, concerns, consternations, deliberations, revelations, or pontifications feel free to drop me a line at teachnology@hotmail.com. That's technology with an A.
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Mr. Piper,
Thanks for listening and writing. Although most of my rubrics are aligned with current state or a national standards, the gradebook rubric is not as there are no self-evaluation standards at the state or national level (that I know of). The gradebook rubric is simply based on 10 years of teaching and studying student performance.
I worked on the very informal podcast script for about an hour or so.
Thank you for your iput.
Eric Jefcoat,
Be true to your school
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