Student’s Rubric for Assessing Book Group Discussions Note to the teacher: Show your students the rubric. Answer their questions. After a student’s presentation, in a one-to-one conference, use the rubric to point out what the student could do to improve the next presentation. Provide photocopies of the rubric so that students can assess each other’s presentations. 3 2 1 Key Elements Excellent Satisfactory Needs Improvement Levels of Participation Each member was Most were involved. Few were involved. One equally involved in the or two did most of the Group Score __ discussions. talking. Listening Skills Each member made eye Most members paid Few paid attention to contact with the attention to the speaker. the speaker. speaker. No one Group Score __ distracted the group. On-task behavior Discussion was on the There was some Much off-task behavior. for the entire time. topic behavior but Teacher had to help. members got one Score __ another back on task. Preparation Each member was Most members were Few members were prepared for discussion. fully prepared for prepared for discussion. Group Score __ discussions. of Book: ______________________________________________________ Date: _____________________________________________________________ of group members: ___________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ Name of student monitor: _____________________________________________
Student’s Rubric for Assessing Book Group Discussions Note to the teacher: Show your students the rubric. Answer their questions. After a student’s presentation, in a one-to-one conference, use the rubric to point out what the student could do to improve the next presentation. Provide photocopies of the rubric so that students can assess each other’s presentations. Key Elements 3 Excellent 2 Satisfactory 1 Needs Improvement Levels of Participation Group Score __ Each member was equally involved in the discussions. Most were involved. Few were involved. One or two did most of the talking. Listening Skills Group Score __ Each member made eye contact with the speaker. No one distracted the group. Most members paid attention to the speaker. Few paid attention to the speaker. On-task behavior Score __ Discussion was on the topic for the entire time. There was some behavior but members got one another back on task. Much off-task behavior. Teacher had to help. Preparation Group Score __ Each member was prepared for discussion. Most members were fully prepared for discussions. Few members were prepared for discussion. of Book: ______________________________________________________ Date: _____________________________________________________________ of group members: ___________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ Name of student monitor: _____________________________________________
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