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Description of Performance: General or Task-Specific.
Each of these type rubrics can also be calorizes as “General” or “Specific.” Use a general rubric when: You want to assess reasoning, skills and products and all students are not doing exactly the same task. Use a specific rubric when: You want to assess knowledge. When consistency of scoring is extremely important.
What are the Qualities of a “Good” Rubric?

Neither rubric is better than the other. All have a place in authentic assessment (Custer, 1996), correspond as closely as possible to real world experience going beyond the typical pencil and paper activity (Montgomery, 2002),, and calling for greater accountability and transparency, especially in the assessment of student learning (Diller & Phelps, 2008).
In the Fundamentals of Rubrics (Bargainnier, …show more content…

The original Taxonomy, Bloom developed six categories which included Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation and translated into more than 22 languages (Krathwohl, p. 213, 2002). Costa (1985) reduced the six categories to three levles: Level One—the basement or Introduction of knowledge; Level Two, the ground floor, Practice knowledge learned: and Level Three-the penthouse, Demonstrates mastery of knowledge learned.
Blooms Taxonomy. In using Blooms taxonomy there are questions and key words that can be used in developing the categories for measurement. They made the revision (Anderson, Krathwohl, Airasian, Cruikshank, Mayer, Pintrich, Raths, Wittrock, 2000) and moved Synthesis to the first step of Creating. The second step became Evaluation.
The new terms are defined as:
Remembering (Describe…): Retrieving, recognizing, and recalling relevant knowledge from long-term

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