Using Advance Organizers To Enhance Students’ Motivation In Learning Biology: A case from Kenya - rubrics-in-a-secondary-mathematics-class.pdf

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• it helped her to measure genuine understanding

• motivate secondary mathematics teachers to use rubrics in their classes.

• Using the rubric made the students an active part in the learning process

• consumed a lot of time and effort from the teacher and her students

• The students argued that using the rubric is difficult because it requires a lot of details and because they are not used to use mathematical language

• Mathematical knowledge: (Do you know it?) Knowledge of mathematical principles and concepts which result in a correct solution to a problem. - Strategic knowledge: (How do you plan?) Identification and use of important elements of the problem that represent and integrate concepts which yield the solution (e.g., models, diagrams, symbols, algorithms). - Explanation: (Can you explain it?) Written explanation of the rationales and steps of the solution process. A justification of each step is provided. Though important, the length of the response, grammar, and syntax are not the critical elements of this dimension

• The teacher gave the student's answer a mark of 5.75 out of 10. The students consider this mark a low score. The teacher realised that the weakness point for the student was in the explanation.

• final grade negatively

• no theoretical questions (memorizing questions)

• involves data reduction, data display, and drawing conclusions and verification

• selecting, simplifying, abstracting and transforming data

• representations including mind maps and case summaries

• drawing conclusions and verification from the data

• Using the rubric in assessment enhanced students learning

• Using the rubric in assessment made the students an active part in their learning

• Using the rubric in assessment enhanced the teacher's work.

• Lack of experience in applying rubrics in assessment

• Difficulties in the rubric's design.

• pplying the rubric in assessment is effort and time consuming.