Languages Online - LOTE Rubric Maker

What is the LOTE Rubric Maker?

The LOTE Rubric Maker is a free application that you can download and install on your computer.

By working through the easy steps you can create assessment sheets which measure student performance against the Victorian Essential Learning Standards. The LOTE Rubric Maker works by finding the standards and progression points that match the selection you make when creating your rubric.

The LOTE Rubric Maker supports a multidisciplinary focus. You can create rubrics to assess knowledge, skills and behaviours not only in LOTE but across the three strands of Physical, Personal and Social Learning, Discipline-based Learning, and Interdisciplinary Learning.

Formatting options allow you to:

select the number of columns in the performance table
add your own performance descriptors
create rubrics for student self assessment
select the order in which the standards are displayed.

Finished rubrics are saved as Microsoft Word documents. This allows you to open and edit the Rubric to suit your particular requirements. Finished rubrics can be personalised via a mail merge with names from your class list.

The LOTE Rubric Maker follows a simple step by step process. Each step has a detailed 'Help' page. The printable 'Reference Guide' (see the link above) also contains useful information.

Why use the LOTE Rubric Maker?

The LOTE Rubric Maker can help you in a variety of ways:

Save time when searching for relevant VELS standards: use the LOTE Rubric Maker to call up the standards relevant to the task.
Create a clear and informative rubric layout, which is entirely editable in Word.
Assess your students’ use of knowledge, skills and behaviours from other domains in their LOTE work.
Make summative assessments OF learning, may inform directions FOR learning and allows your students to make self-assessments AS learning.
Use the LOTE Rubric Maker to explore the range of knowledge, skills and behaviours relevant to the students’ level. See how key student skills relate to specific standards and design assessment tasks accordingly.
Use the LOTE Rubric Maker to check that you are teaching the knowledge, skills and behaviours to allow students to demonstrate all required standards.
Make a series of rubrics to assess each piece of work over the semester. Rubrics which consistently use the VELS as assessment criteria will help you make an accurate on-balance judgement of students’ progress and performance for reporting purposes.
Use the LOTE Rubric Maker for planning. The LOTE Rubric Maker has an important filtering tool, the student attributes. The attributes describe the types of skills, knowledge and behaviours students need to actively use to complete a particular task. Each dimension (in all VELS domains and levels) has been examined to identify the attributes that students need to demonstrate achievement of the standard, progression point or LOTE progression measure. Each standard, progression point and progression measure in the VELS is thus linked to one or more student attributes.

- Make an audit of the knowledge, skills and behaviours required in existing programs, and explore their alignment with the VELS.
- Explore the range of skills that can complement, enrich and enhance language learning.
- Identify connections between knowledge, skills and behaviours across the domains and potential collaboration between staff.
- Identify possibilities and broad themes for cross-curricular projects for a year level.
- Use the student attributes to plan, refine and focus the requirements of each assessment task.

Installation and operation

Installation

To install and run the LOTE Rubric Maker the computer must have the following:

XP, Vista, Windows 7('.net framework 2.0' or higher. If it is not installed on the computer, a prompt will appear allowing the download and installation of the file. It is free.)
screen resolution of at least 1024 x 768
256 colours or greater

Installation in schools

Installation of software in school systems is often restricted. This may mean that only your IT technician is able to install software. Talk to you IT support about how the software is best installed in your school.

The default save path for completed rubrics is the 'My Document' folder.

Version History

Version 1.2 (27th May 2011)

Windows 7 version

Version 1.1 (8th September 2009)

Missing LOTE progression measures added
Scroll bars added for small screens
'Student name' doesn't spill over onto second line
Standards stay selected when moving between tabs

Further Information and help

Each step of the Rubric Maker has a detailed 'Help' page. Click on the 'Help' icon in the top right hand corner to view the page.

For futher assistance contact the Languages Online Team (languages.online@edumail.vic.gov.au)

Contact: Languages Online Team (languages.online@edumail.vic.gov.au)
Created on: Friday, October 10th, 2008 | Page last updated: Friday, May 26th, 2011

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