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Measurement and Geometry: Building Conceptual Understanding in Young Children

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Rubrics

A rubric is a scoring guide for assessing student work.

The rubric describes the criteria for each performance level.

Rubrics are measuring tools that are usually tailor-made by the person doing the assessing.

Rubrics can be either holistic or analytic in nature.

The holistic rubric focuses on the entire response; the assessor evaluates the work as a whole.

The analytic rubric is more like a checklist and looks at specific aspects of the response.