Rubric Carousel is a activity where students collaboratively create a rubric. This makes them actively engage with the (success) criteria, providing clarity about expectations and direction for learning. The idea of the assignment is that groups of students create a unique part of a rubric (for example, 2 out of 6 criteria). This rotates several times so that all groups have seen it. In this way, the groups work together step by step on one rubric.
• Form groups of 2-4 students. • Give each group an analytical rubric (see image), where only the criteria and not the levels are filled in. • Have each group fill in the levels for a number of criteria (e.g., 2/6). • Rotate the partially filled rubrics several times between a number of groups and have each group supplement the filled-in levels until all groups have seen it. • Do this again and possibly more times until it has gone through all the groups. Have each group finalize their original criteria. • Create a single rubric by discussing it centrally in class. • Discuss the choices for levels in class: why is something level 1, 4? etc.
• Optionally, you may also choose not to provide the criteria yourself. This does make it significantly more complex for students • It is necessary that there is already some knowledge about a topic: you will notice that students often have relatively high expectations for themselves • Engage in good expectation management: it is a working form, an exercise: students are not creating their own assessment. Although you can of course use elements ('the best examples') • Optionally, create the rubric outside of class to form a cohesive whole and use it intermittently to guide learning
A (partially) blank rubric per group.