Student Rubric Template

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Student Rubric Report

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This report is designed to make it easier for teachers to give students feedback on their work using your district's custom rubrics. Teachers enter rubric scores into a simple summary assessment. The report then generates a highlighted rubric, indicating what scores they earned in each category with a description of what each score signifies.

This template was designed with generic field names, specifically to make it easier to use as a report template. If you rubric has fewer than 6 categories or fewer than 6 "points" or levels, simply delete the rows/columns you don't need.

How to Use the Student Rubric Report Template

Step 1: Create a Summary Assessment

The Summary Assessment is where teachers will enter the essay rubric data.

• Click: Assessments > Create a New Summary Assessment

• Give the assessment a title (optional: Select subject-area, scope, and grade levels)

• Click: Columns

• Click: + Add Column (You will need one column for each category on your rubric.) Please do not create more than 6 columns. The template has 6 rubric categories and can be very easily adjusted to have fewer categories.

• Set the Column Type to “Number” for all columns.

• Name the columns according to your rubric categories. Save.

• Use the student scope selector to pull up 2 or 3 students. Click: Find Students

• Click: by Student

• Enter data for 2 or 3 students. Keep the values less than or equal to 6. The template uses a 6 point rubric and can be very easily adjusted if your rubric has fewer than 6 points. (This is just for testing. You can delete this data later.)

Step 2: Create Your Custom Report

• Click: Overview. Then, + Custom Report. Then, Create.

• Click on the title of your custom report to open the custom report.

• In the custom report, click: Manage Columns

• IMPORTANT:

  • The names of the columns must be EXACT in order for the report to work properly.

  • Rename the columns in your custom report. Make sure the column with the student ID #'s is named "Local Student ID". (If the column is labeled "Student ID", you'll need to change it to "Local Student ID".)

  • Rename the columns representing your rubric categories to: Category1, Category2, Category3, etc. Click: Save changes and View Report.

Step 3: Create Your Data Adapter

• Download the custom report as a tab delimited txt file.

• Open JasperSoft Studio. In the top left hand of the screen, click the icon to create a new data adapter.

• Choose CSV File. Click Next.

• Name your data adapter. Click: File and select the data.txt file that was created when you downloaded the custom report from Illuminate. Click: Open

• Next, click: Separators and select tab.

• Click: Columns > Get Column names from the first row of the file.

• Check the box next to ”Skip the first line”. Click Finish.

Step 4: Download and Customize the Student Rubric Report Template

• Download the report template

Click here to download the report template.

• In JasperSoft Studio, click: File > Open File and select the report template you just downloaded — will be a .jrxml file.

• Click the “DataSet” icon in the top right hand area of JasperSoft Studio.

• Next, select the data adapter you just created, and click: Read Fields. Save.

• IMPORTANT: In the outline, expand the fields menu, select all the “Category” fields, and change the class from “java.lang.string” to “java.lang.Double”. (This tells JasperSoft to read these fields as numbers, instead of text.)

• IF your data contains fewer than 6 categories, delete the extra categories from the rubric before running the report.

• Preview the report.

TIP: If you get an error, verify that the ”Ignore First Line” option is selected in your data adapter. (The first line is your header row.) Double-click on your data adapter, and make sure the box is checked.

Step 5: Customize the rubric in JasperSoft Studio

• If your report is generating successfully, now we are going to add a calculation and customize the text in the report to match your rubric.

• Click the Design tab.

• Double-click the calculation field right next to “Overall Score” at the bottom of the rubric.

• Remove the existing text and enter your calculation for the overall score.

• Your calculation should look something like (adjusted for the number of categories in your rubric):

  • ($F{Category1}+$F{Category2}+$F{Category3}+$F{Category4}+$F{Category5}+$F{Category6})/6

• Double click on any text field in the rubric to adjust the text.

• Don’t forget to save!

Step 6: Deploy the Report

• Login to Illuminate. Click: Reports > Create a New Jasper Report

• Name your report. Select the .jrxml file you have just created, and select the custom report you created in Step 2.

• Save, and you’re done!

• Finally, click: Reports > List Reports. Search for you report and run it!

Now, as teachers enter data into the summary assessment, Illuminate will automatically generate a hi-lighted rubric for every student.