CBC assessment rubrics

Competency-based assessment does not reduce a learner to a percentage. Instead each competency — a specific thing the learner should be able to do — is judged against performance levels, typically Below Expectation, Approaching Expectation, Meeting Expectation and Exceeding Expectation.

ShuleOne runs this alongside marks-based assessment, so a school can use rubrics in the lower grades and marks in the upper ones during the transition.

Where the screens are

Screen	Who uses it
Assessment Rubrics → All Rubrics	Administrators — the rubric library
Rubrics → Admin	Administrators — set up rubrics and levels
Rubrics → Students	Teachers — the class list to assess
Rubrics → Student	Teachers — assess one learner

Setting up a rubric

Choose a class and subject before building or applying a rubric.

An administrator defines, for a strand of work:

1. The competencies being assessed — written as observable statements, “measures length using standard units”, not “understands measurement”.
2. The performance levels and what each looks like in practice. The descriptors are what make assessment consistent between teachers; vague descriptors produce inconsistent results.
3. The class or grade the rubric applies to, and the learning area.

Keep the number of competencies per rubric small. A rubric with thirty rows will not be filled honestly for a class of forty; six to ten is assessable in a lesson.

Assessing learners

A teacher opens Rubrics → Students, picks the class, and works down the list. For each learner, each competency is set to the level observed.

Assessment is meant to be continuous rather than a single event. Recording as you observe during the term produces a far better picture than filling the whole rubric in the last week — and the learner’s record shows movement between levels over time, which is the point of the system.

Reporting

Rubric outcomes appear on the CBC report, expressed as performance levels per competency rather than as a mark and a grade. Where a school runs both systems, the report card shows marks for examined subjects and levels for competency-assessed learning areas.

Parents see the same levels in the parent view.

Rubrics and the coding pathway

The coding curriculum is assessed the same way. Learners work through the pathway in the student portal, and their competency levels come back to the school under the coding module.