This book helps teachers choose or develop sound instructional rubrics, use rubrics effectively with students to maximize learning, convert rubric scores to grades, and communicate with parents about the use of rubrics in the classroom. The authors speak from direct experience in examining hundreds of rubrics for classroom use, developing rubrics for classroom use and state assessments, using rubrics in the classroom to help students learn, and speaking with parents, teachers, and students about rubrics.

1 Defining Rubric
2 What a Good Rubric Looks Like
3 How to Develop a General Rubric
4 Quality Performance Tasks
5 How to Convert Rubric Scores to Grades
6 Tasks and Rubrics as Assessment for Learning
7 Communicating with Parents about Rubrics
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Appendix A Rubric for Rubrics
Appendix B Rubric Sampler Table of Contents
Appendix C Rubric Sampler Rubrics Referenced in the Text
Appendix D Rubric for Tasks
Appendix E CD Table of Contents