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To help states, districts, teachers, and other users determine the degree of alignment of Open Educational Resources
to the Common Core State Standards and to determine aspects of quality OER, Achieve has developed a series of rubrics, listed here,
in collaboration with leaders from the OER community.
The purpose of these rubrics is to provide a structure for evaluting an online resource in a systematic, purposeful, and comprehensive way.
There are multiple ways of evaluating a resource. For example, you could use a holistic approach,
such as the five-star rating system also used in OER Commons.
Or you could evaluate each of the parts, as you can with this set of rubrics. The rubrics can be applied across many different content areas;
however, at this stage the only educational standards that resources can be aligned to in the tool
are the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics.
Users should apply each rubric independently to the smallest meaningful unit of the resource, or to each OER object as it appears
in OER Commons. Rubrics are used to rate potential--not the actual--effectiveness of a particular object of an educational setting.
The following five-point scoring system describes the predicted levels of quality.
A three rating means the object is superior in that specific area, a two means it is strong, a one rating means it is limited,
and rating an object zero means it is very weak in that specific area of quality.
Users can rate an object N/A when a particular rubric does not apply to the object being rated.
N/A is not a pejorative score; it simply means it would be inappropriate to apply this rubric to a particular object.
Also is important to note that there are no right or wrong answers in evaluating--only your own opinions of the resource.
Please rate the quality of each item as you think it should be assessed, using the rubrics to guide your evaluations.
This is what the evaluation tool looks like when evaluating a resource under one of the rubrics.
You can also mouse over the numbers to learn more about what each rating--
superior, strong, limited, very weak, and not applicable--mean in each rubric.
Again these are the titles of the rubrics that can be used to evaluate resources and in OER Commons. Other videos in the series
further explore each individual rubric, and what each rating means in the context of that particular area of quality.
Please refer to these videos for more information on each rubric.