Chapter 4. Assessing children's writing

Teachers use rubrics to assess children's writing. Teachers and children often develop their own rubrics because it provides the opportunity to teach children valuable lessons about what makes strong a piece of writing (Tomkins, 2008) Instructional rubrics support the development of skills. Another study (Andrade, 1999) It appeared that more intensive work with the rubric might be helpful. Investigated the effects of rubrics and self-assessment on learning and metacognition—the act of monitoring and regulating one's own thinking (Goodrich, 1996)

According to Ja Eun Kim, Self-assessment encourages students to reflect on their learning and results in their consciously improving how they learn. Because self-assessment is new for most students, instructors can implement strategies to support the development of students' abilities to assess their own work. Students using the rubric learned more than students who did not. I concluded that self-assessment supported by a rubric was related to an increase in content learning

References
Tompkins, G.E. (2008). Teaching writing: Balancing process and product. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

Andrade, H. (1999). The effects of instructional rubrics on student writing. Manuscript in preparation.

Goodrich, H. (1996). Student self-assessment: At the intersection of metacognition and authentic assessment. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.