Opinion essay rubric ontario

Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test Released April 2018 OSSLT Item-Specific Rubrics and Sample Student Responses with Annotations EQAO, 2 Carlton Street, Suite 1200, Toronto, ON M5B 2M9 • 1-888-327-7377 • Web site: www.eao.com • © 2008 Queen’s Printer for Ontario

Teachers select and use many assessment tools to assess and evaluate student achievement. For this project, a rubric was developed for each of the writing tasks, on the basis of the achievement-levels chart on page 9 of The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1–8: Language, 1997.

Although rubrics were used effectively in this project, they are only one way to assess student achievement. Other forms of classroom assessment include anecdotal records, checklists, tests, and teacher observation. Teachers select and use many assessment tools to assess and evaluate student achievement.

After the elaborated descriptions in the rubrics had been reviewed and revised by all the teachers participating in the writing exemplars project, they then were used to assess the student writing samples at both the district school board level and the provincial level.