Top+Five+Tips+for+Improving+Rubrics

=**Top Five Tips for Improving Rubrics** = = =

**1. **Join The Wiki

 * ===**The resources will be helpful while you are making your rubrics. **===

**2. Rigor-ize Column 4 **

 * ===**You want this column to require students to demonstrate something extra. **===

3. A Zero is Understood

 * ===You have to turn something in to at least get a 1. ===

5. Make Distinctions between the Descriptors
= = = = =Analytical Examples using Indicators and Descriptors = =[|Indicator_Rubric.jpg]= =by: Heather Ulsh=
 * ===Make sure column 4 is not easier to get than column 3 ===
 * ===Don't overlap between your descriptor ===

=[|Descriptor_Rubric.jpg]= == =by: Betsy Mitchell, Becky Karatsikis, and Erin McGrann=