Rubrics, portfolios and concept maps

Rubrics, porfolios and concept maps

Rubrics, Portfolios, and concepts maps are tools to assess students that in its ways help the learner to improve his knowledge. Rubrics do assess students matching their projects with the requirements in a manner of helping the student to develop projects correctly. Portfolios are a tool used to reflect the student's progress by comparing how early works and latest works were developed. Generally, concepts maps are used since early levels of education, the reason is that concept maps help the learner to structure its ideas, to discriminate information, in order to get what it is really relevant to the topic and to be concise and clear.   These three tools will be developed in the following concept map, presenting the basic concepts of each one.

In the following video, will be discussed the importance of these kinds of tools, how are developed and used, some advantages, and how they help students to improve their learning.  

Even when these tools are completely different between each one, helps the learner to improve their knowledge, skills of the topic they are working on. The assessment that each tool provides to the learners to observe how much they have learned in the case of portfolios, the rubric will help to the learner to develop projects with better quality, focusing on what he needs to focus depending on the teacher's demands.