Week 2 Reflection

     Hello everyone! Long time no see, I've learned a lot throughout this past week that has furthered my knowledge about formal and informal assessment. Throughout this week, we learned about rating scales and rubrics. I learned that there are Analytic rubrics and Holistic rubrics, the difference between the two are that analytic rubrics describe and score each of the task attributes separately while holistic rubrics describe the entire criteria (skills, abilities, and behaviors) for one score. Also, we learned that rating scales are an organized list of skills abilities, behaviors, and levels of performance, the definition of rating is the degree to which ability, behaviors, or skills were presented. While rubrics are an organized list of skills, abilities, and behaviors; and levels of performance but define each level for degree to which the skills, abilities, and behaviors were presented. This allows students to know what is required in an assignment and how it will be graded. I will be using very detailed grading Rubics within my future classroom to help the students see and know what they need to do within that task to receive the highest grade possible, also this will show them what they were missing or needed extra explanation to within the assignment as well. 

    During class this week we also got to create our own grading rubrics within our small groups. After we created each of our own rubrics for the " life of a butterfly life cycle" assignment we got to go around the room and comment and spread positive feedback to other groups. After all of this, Dr. Won uploaded pictures of young students' assignments on the life cycle project and in our small groups we got to grade them and then explained why we gave them that grade at the end.