Checklists & Rubrics

Overview

Checklists and rubrics help students develop their abilities to self-assess and revise their writing. By listing learning targets and criteria, checklists and rubrics help students understand what is expected so they can monitor their work, enhancing Metacognition.

Use It in the Classroom

Learn how this school integrates rubrics and checklists. They use these tools to set clear criteria for self-assessments so students can take charge of revising, thus increasing Motivation and fostering a growth mindset. At 2:28, watch how students use colored pencils to identify evidence for having met the criteria, make comments, then revise their work, encouraging independent learning.

By providing a rubric that describes what excellent work looks like, teachers can help students understand the quality of work expected of them then encourage them to actively take responsibility for improving their work by self-evaluating and evaluating their peers' writing. Teachers can also involve students in creating rubrics, increasing their awareness of the applicable Genre Knowledge and their Motivation.

Design It into Your Product

Videos are chosen as examples of strategies in action. These choices are not endorsements of the products or evidence of use of research to develop the feature.

From 3:04, watch how Goobric, a Google Chrome extension, allows for rubrics to be set for students' self- and peer- assessment. By setting a clear rubric for students to assess their own and their peers' work, Goobric promotes Metacognition to help learners better understand what is expected of them.

Developers can integrate rubrics and checklists as guidelines for online community discussions, promoting Inhibition & Self-regulation during collaboration. They can also provide tools for learners to develop their own rubrics and to make comments tracing their own progress in their work.

View References

Resources

Below are additional examples, research, and professional development. These resources are possible representations of this strategy, not endorsements.

Editing Checklist

ReadWriteThink tools for students to edit their own and their peers' writing

Metacognition & Self-Regulated Learning

Subtopic that includes research on metacognitive processes that help learners plan what and how to learn on Digital Promise's Research Map

Self-Assessment

Tips for creating checklists and rubrics and including students in the process

Student Self-Assessment

Sample rubrics that can be used for student self-assessment

The Writing Checklist

How a teacher introduces a friendly checklist with graphics for students' self-assessment

Tools to Use in Assessment

Integrating rubrics and checklists in self- and peer-assessment

Factors Supported by this Strategy

Literacy

Foundational Writing Skills

Genre Knowledge

Syntax

Verbal Reasoning

Cognition

Attention

Cognitive Flexibility

Inhibition & Self-regulation

Student Background

More Metacognitive Supports Strategies

Goal Setting & Monitoring

Setting overall goals, as well as smaller goals as steps to reaching them, encourages consistent, achievable progress and helps students feel confident in their skills and abilities.

Reflect on Learning

Providing space and time for students to reflect is critical for moving what they have learned into Long-term Memory.

Self-instructions

When students engage in a dialogue with themselves, they are able to orient, organize, and focus their thinking.

Self-monitoring

When students monitor their comprehension, performance, and use of strategies when reading and writing, they build their Metacognition.

Self-reinforcement

When students give themselves positive self-statements after reaching a goal, they acknowledge their progress and reward their small successes.

Checklists & Rubrics

Overview

Use It in the Classroom

Design It into Your Product

Resources

Factors Supported by this Strategy

Visit

Explore

Stay Up to Date