prompt n.

[victor steinbok]

Rubrics is another word that has its own meaning in the testing
world---generally speaking, it's the grading scheme. Unlike
multiple-choice questions, where answers are assumed to be
predetermined, open-ended (a.k.a. free-response) questions are graded
on a short scale according to a rubric. On standardized tests and
their ilk the rubric may have a 4- or a 6-point scale, with the lowest
score being 1 == no effort (occasionally 0 indicates no response, but
this is rare). The second, more traditional type of
non-multiple-choice questions is "short answer"--these are the "fill
in the blank" or computational questions that are expected a unique
answer or one within a narrow range.

In general, these categories and terminology that accompanies them,
mostly make sense only to psychometricians, i.e., testing and
evaluation specialists.

VS-)

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:52 AM, David Metevia <djmetevia at chartermi.net> wrote:
>
> My children (middle school and high school) commonly bring home assignments
> that are explained by prompts or rubrics.

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