Danyelle Anthon Illuminate Education

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Creating Rubric-Based Assessments in Illuminate Danyelle Anthon Illuminate Education

Buffalo Public Schools

Buffalo, NY

BuffaloPublicSchools 34,222 Students 3,415 teachers 44 Elementary/Middle Schools 11 High Schools

StudentDemographics Limited English Proficiency 13% Students With Disabilities 21% Economically Disadvantaged 76% Graduation Rate 53%

StudentDemographics ~46 Language Spoken: Spanish Karen Somali Arabic Vietnamese Swahili

Nepali Burmese Kirundi Kpelle French

The backstory…

Buffalo’sEvolution of assessment

WhyUseMCItems? •  Easily graded •  Quick turnaround for student feedback •  Assess a wide range of course content •  Lower potential for measurement error

WhyUseCRItems? •  Skills we want to measure are too complex to effectively measure with a MC question type •  Eliminates “I’ll know it when I see it” method of answering test questions, requiring the student to craft an answer without potentially leading choices

Ways To Create Assessments With CR Questions

ManualAssessment Set up a manual assessment using the Sheet Designer function and questions you already may have from outside of the Illuminate itembanks

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You are now ready to print bubble sheets and administer your assessment!

ItembankAssessment Use the itembanks to find questions already structured as CR questions, complete with rubrics

Questions: •  Can I change the rubric setup on a CR question from the INSPECT or NWEA item banks? Nope…but you can retype the question and adjust

•  Can a student take an assessment with CR questions online? Sure! •  How do you score an assessment with CR questions? I’ll show you!

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