About this list
In this list you will find rubrics for assessing student-created products as well as tools for informal and formative assessment. There are also tools for creating assessment activities and simplifying grading.
Rubrics
Most of the sites below provide sample rubrics - ones you can use if they meet your needs. Rubistar is a good tool for creating your own.
Great collection of assessment links. Links to rubrics to assess just about anything. Also provides articles about rubric creation and rubric making tools as well as links to resources for other types of assessment including graphic organizers and electronic portfolios.
Rubistar is a free tool from 4teachers.org that can be used to create rubrics. You can start with suggested categories and descriptors for many different projects and browse rubrics other teachers have created. Rubrics can be saved online to be retrieved and edited later (must register for free account) or downloaded to print. You can create (from suggested categories) a rubric to assess a student's movie, podcast, other multimedia presentation, and you can also search for rubrics created by other teachers and use or adapt them.
Also from 4teachers.org..."To help you start using PBL, we've created age-appropriate, customizable project checklists for written reports, multimedia projects, oral presentations, and science projects. The use of these checklists keeps students on track and allows them to take responsibility for their own learning through peer- and self-evaluation."
Links to rubrics from Teacher Planet organized by subject and topic. Also check out their link to Free Rubric Builders. Rubistar is there, but also a nice Rubric and Assessment Generator from Teacher Planet that lets you start from scratch to create your own.
Good links here - some are to rubrics they've created (will say A+ at top). Those can be used/adapted AS LONG AS you give credit to source of original. Other links go to other sites - check before using/adapting to see if it's allowed.
Rubrics for assessing student collaboration and presentations at different grade levels. "The Buck Institute for Education (BIE) is dedicated to improving 21st Century teaching and learning throughout the world by creating and disseminating products, practices and knowledge for effective Project Based Learning (PBL)."
Formative assessment tools
Check these as ways to check student progress during class.
"Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets."
Similar to Socrative but with some additional question types including ability to include images, have students annotate images or draw originals responses.
"Short guide to using backchannels for increasing participation in classroom discussions and for informally assessing your students' knowledge." Created by Richard Byrne. Gives detailed instructions on TodaysMeet, Wallwisher (now renamed to Padlet), and Socrative.
A list of bookmarks to sites you can use for real-time collaboration.
Creating assessment activities
In this blog post, Richard Byrne describes different online tools teachers can use to create quizzes.
blubbr.tv allows you to play and create video trivia games based on clips of videos. Can search education category or create your own interactive quizzes.
"Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student."
Create flashcards online and find ones created by others.
"Quizlet is a free website providing learning tools for students, including flashcards, study and game modes. It was created by high school sophomore Andrew Sutherland in 2005 and now contains over 400 million study sets. All of the material is user-generated."
Simplifying grading
Tammy Worcester Tang has created and shared templates that take data from answers submitted via a Googl Form and automatically calculate the percent of correct answers for each student.
Flubaroo is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments - works with Google forms.
" iRubric is a comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and sharing tool...Build a rubric in minutes using our Rubric Studio. Rubric can be built from scratch or from exiting rubrics."