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The Protorubrics
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... The next section describes a rough scoring system what is called a protorubric for the task. It is now widely recognized that an assessment task by itself means little without an indication of how children's responses would be scored.
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... Although we do intend that these prototypes will encourage teachers to use group work, we have deliberately set aside the daunting task of codifying rubrics for assigning individual grades when students work in groups. There is continuing debate between proponents of "holistic" and "analytic" approaches.


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