October+22,+2009

In class it seemed to be more or less a catch-up week as far as work goes. I found this nice in helping to not fall behind. The assignment for the week was to create rubrics, which I found rather easy because of prior experience. I did find some of the sites on Black Board useful to help with wording the criteria on the rubric. The sites for creating rubrics also made it much easier to create one. As far as creating a rubric to grade students one, I feel that they work quite well. When an ideal rubric is used, it allows for more flexibility with the students. There is not necessarily a right or wrong answer, but it requires that the students in a sense justify their answer. In my opinion this is a better environment for learning since more meaningful learning takes place when an idea is discovered for oneself. In terms of problems, I did not really face any with creating the rubrics.

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