Integrating Educational Technology

into Teaching (4th Edition)

M. D. Roblyer University of Maryland University College

RubiStar® Tutorial for

Chapter 3 TIE-into Practice Exercises

Created by William R. Wiencke

Upper Saddle River, New Jersey Columbus, Ohio

A Sample RubiStar Tutorial The Technology Integration Example (Alien Rescue Project) at the beginning of Chapter 3 showed how teachers might use an instructional software package with a problem-solving function as the basis of a class project. At the end of the project, students are to do presentations of new problems and methods they would use to solve them. The teacher has to create a rubric to assess these presentations. Using the tutorial below, create a rubric on the RubiStar website like the example shown here.

Required System Settings

1. This tutorial assumes that you have installed Microsoft Internet Explorer® on your computer.

Follow the steps below to create the RubiStar Rubric shown above. 1. Create a RubiStar account.

1.1 Browse to http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

1.2 Click Register

1.3 Complete the registration form

1.4 Click Register

2. Create a new rubric

2.1 Click New Rubric

2.2 Click Click Here to Create a Brand New Rubric

2.3 Enter the information as shown

2.4 Click Submit

2.5 Click Edit Rubric Row Names

2.6 Enter the row names shown

2.7 Click Add New Row(s)

2.8 Edit the row names if necessary

2.9 Click Edit Rubric Contents

2.10 Enter the column names

Note: Notice Time Warning

2.11 Enter first set of levels

2.12 Click the Submit button at the bottom of the page

2.13 Check you work for accuracy

2.14 Click Edit Rubric Contents to continue

2.14 Enter the remaining levels. See completed rubric at top of document for complete text

2.15 Click Submitwhen finished

3. Printing/Saving your rubric

3.1 Click print page to obtain a hard copy of your rubric

3.2 Click the print

3.3 Click Save Rubric

3.4 Choose the format you wish to use

4. Analyze your rubric based upon your class performance

4.1 Click Analyze Rubric

4.2 Click add/edit results

4.3 Enter data into each cell

4.4 Click Submit

4.5 Click Please click here to return to your Rubric

Note: Class performance is displayed

4.6 Click teacher home

4.7 Click Logout when finished for the day

Rubric Made Using:RubiStar ( http://rubistar.4teachers.org )

Teacher Name: Dr. Wiencke

Student Name: ________________________________________

CATEGORY Excellent Work Very Good Work Poor Work No CreditProblem and Solution Content

Reflects comprehensive knowledge of solar system; all facts and ideas were completely accurate; there was a good match of problem and solution.

Reflects fairly good knowledge of solar system; most facts and ideas were completely accurate; there was a good match of problem and solution.

Reflects some knowledge of solar system, but there were several factual inaccuracies; the solution was not the best match for the problem.

Reflects limited and/or inaccurate knowledge of solar system; there was little or no relationship between the problem and solution.

Clarity of Problem and Solution

Both problem and solution were clearly stated; other students could readily understand both.

Both problem and solution were fairly well-stated, but needed some clarification.

Either the problem or the solution required extensive clarification.

Both the problem and the solution required extensive clarification.

Presentation Organization

Presentation was extremely well organized; content was divided into logical sections for presentation and transitions were smooth.

Presentation was usually well-organized; content was divided into logical sections for presentation but transitions were somewhat uneven and choppy

Presentation was somewhat organized but there were no transitions within the presentation.

Presentation was choppy, confusing, and difficult to follow.

Presentation Mechanics

Presentation was interesting and compelling; visual aids and/or multimedia were used and were well-designed to support content.

Presentation was fairly interesting; some visual aids and/or multimedia were used and were well-designed to support content.

Presentation was acceptable, but could have been more interesting and used visual aids and/or multimedia better

Presentation was uninteresting; no visual aids and/or multimedia were used.

Cooperative Group Work

Project and presentation work was divided equally; each student had a clearly-defined role in the work; it was clear that students worked well together.

Project and presentation work seemed to have been divided equally, but exact roles needed clarification; however, students seemed to work well together.

Project and presentation work was not divided equally; roles were unclear but students seemed to be working together.

Only one or two students did all the work of the project and presentation; there was little evidence of cooperative work.

Date Created: February 25, 2005

Alien Rescue