Modifying Assessments

Customizing an Assessment

Ms. Sohn wants to use a middle school self-direction rubric that she found in her search. She needs to adapt it for her elementary students as well as include specific references to the project students are working on in this unit.

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Ms. Sohn can make many changes to assessments in her Personal Library within the application. For example, she can:

• Delete ratings to describe only two or three levels of performance
• Add ratings to describe more than four levels of performance
• Reorder ratings to go from low to high
• Change rating levels from numbers to words such as Excellent, Good, Satisfactory, Developing, and so forth
• Change rating levels to points possible (create a scoring guide)
• Add or delete traits or items
• Modify descriptors to make them specific to a particular unit or project
• Change the language to make the assessment appropriate for a different age group
• Reorder traits (rows) or ratings (columns)