Trails to Literacy Around the Province

Rubric Handout

RUBRICS are charts that are used to tell us how good something is or how well something is done.

Down the rows we list:

The content or performance that is to be judged.
- What the learner needs to know or should be able to do?
- What skills will demonstrate success?
- What parts of the whole thing we are judging?
- To judge cookies: Texture, Number of chips, Flavour, Size.

Across the columns we list:

Levels of rating
- For judging cookies – Never try again, If I’m desperate, Worth a second one, Wow, Pig Out!

Where the rows and columns meet:

What would fall into various levels for each performance to be judged?
- What would be considered poor, okay, good, best, etc
- For the cookies: under the Number of Chips, 2 chips would be “Never Try Again. 10 chips would be “Wow!”

Chocolate Chip Cookie Rubric (Adaptation used by permission of Elaine Murphy, Durham District School Board)
	Ugg! (Never again)	Not bad (If I’m desperate)	Okay (Worth a second one)	Wow, Yummy Pig Out!
Texture	Hard as a rock	Dry	Crunchy	Moist & chewy
Number of chips	2 or less, tiny chips	2 to 5, still not too big	5 to 10, medium sized	Loaded, 10 or more chunks
Flavour	None, might as well be cardboard, burnt	Boring but edible	Sweet but not quite there	Buttery, chocolaty, yummy
Size	One nibble only	2 bites I’m done	3 to 4 good chews	Meal replacement