Formative Assessment refers to the different methods used by teachers to evaluate students' achievements, comprehension, learning needs and progress, both during an exam and during a class.
In order to carry Formative Assessment out, students need to know what they are expected to do, to learn and to develop, and how. To that end, rubrics are an essential tool. A rubric is commonly defined as a tool that articulates the expectations
for an assignment by listing criteria, and for each criteria,
describing levels of quality (Andrade, 2000; Arter & Chappuis,
2007; Stiggins, 2001). Rubrics contain three essential features:
criteria students are to attend to in completing the assignment, markers
of quality (typically rating scales), and scoring. (Source: https://teaching.berkeley.edu/resources/improve/evaluate-course-level-learning/rubrics).
The following are some resources related to rubrics:
Rubistar: free and easy tool that helps teachers to create rubrics.
Corubrics: a Google Drive extension to create rubrics that automatically generates the evaluation form (both for co-evaluation and teacher evaluation).
Rubrics' Bank: a helpful collection of already made rubrics for almost everything, created by the teachers at Institut de Gurb.
