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Capstone Rubric Scoring Tool

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About This MicroSim

Reading a rubric is easy. Using one on somebody else's real project is where the skill actually lives. This tool hands you four sample capstone plans of very different quality and asks you to judge each one against the full twelve-criterion capstone rubric: Chapter 11's original seven, plus five that only make sense once a whole project is under review. Every rating needs a written justification, and once all twelve are done the tool assembles your own sentences into a single peer review summary ready to hand to the presenter.

How to Use

  1. Pick a plan from the Load Sample Plan menu. The card on the left shows the full plan: expression list with parameter notes, target display, control scheme, and idle animation description.
  2. Read the criterion name on each rubric row, and its guiding question in the panel on the right.
  3. Choose one of the four ratings for that row: Needs Work, Developing, Solid, or Excellent. Your choice stays colored so the row reads at a glance.
  4. Type a justification in the box beside the ratings. Name the criterion, point at specific evidence in the plan, and suggest a next step.
  5. Press Next Criteria to move through all twelve rows. The progress readout tells you how many rows have both a rating and a reason.
  6. Compose Peer Feedback unlocks only when all twelve rows are complete. It assembles your justifications, in rubric order, into one written summary.
  7. Press Select All Text to copy the summary, or Back to Review to keep editing. Start New Review clears everything and begins again.

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Lesson Plan

Grade Level

9-12 (High School)

Duration

10-15 minutes

Prerequisites

  • Chapter 11's Emotional Design Rubric and its seven criteria, which make up the first seven rows here.
  • Confusable-neighbor reasoning from Chapter 11, especially how surprised and afraid crowd each other.
  • The idle animation and ticks_ms() timing ideas from Chapter 12.
  • The capstone requirement checklist from this chapter, which the five new criteria are drawn from.

Activities

  1. Exploration (5 min): Load Plan A, the rough draft, and rate just the two criteria you feel most confident about. Compare your wording with a partner's. Whose justification would be more useful to the person who wrote the plan?
  2. Guided Practice (5 min): Complete a full twelve-row review of Plan A, then compose the feedback. Read it back and mark any justification that could apply to any project. Those are the ones to rewrite with specific evidence.
  3. Assessment (5 min): Switch to Plan C, the very ambitious one, and review it. Plan C has far more expressions than the requirement asks for, so decide whether that helps or hurts each criterion and say why in writing. Plans B and D are both complete but in opposite ways, so they are worth comparing too.

Assessment

  • All twelve rows carry a rating and a justification before feedback is composed.
  • Justifications name specific evidence from the plan rather than a general impression.
  • Ratings are defensible: a plan with six expressions does not earn Excellent on expression set completeness.
  • The composed summary would be genuinely useful to the plan's author, including at least one concrete next step.

References

  1. Rubric (academic) - Wikipedia - Why scoring against named criteria beats one overall impression.
  2. Peer review - Wikipedia - The wider practice this classroom design review is a small version of.
  3. Design review - Wikipedia - How engineering teams check a design before it is built.
  4. MicroPython framebuf module - The drawing surface each reviewed plan will eventually be built on.