Sample Rubric

Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements. - Napoleon Hill

Art by Matjaz Torkar- Slovenia

Your Own Evaluation - Interpreting Your Rubric:

Below is a sample rubric with three categories - fair, good and excellent. In your team's rubric you have, of course, placed your specific goals and objectives in the far left column. Have you rated the success of your dream project at various milestones? You have made this scoring rubric according to your standards. How did your team score? Are you pleased with the score? What is your team learning? What are their thoughts and longings? You can answer your questions yourself, with your group or ask others to fill out rubrics you make.

What are your strongest areas, the places where you scored a 3? What made these strong and others not so strong?
Where are your weakest areas? How can you do better?
Is there a potential for continuing your dream? Is it something you want to do and are able to continue doing?
Does your evaluation give you ideas that you might need or want to revise your plan in any way?
If you were starting your dream plan now, what would you do differently?
Do you see signs that you moved away from your original goals in any way? Why do you think this might have happened?
Is your team giving 100% of its talents?

Select your own method of evaluation, something that you think works best for you. It can be detailed or it can be open such as a letter to the I Have a Dream KidCom room in your language asking people to look at your dream and give their opinion. You should also use different objectives depending on whom you are asking, your team, the participants, others working on dream projects or those who should gain from your project if appropriate:

To help out we give you an example of organizing your evaluation:

Rubric for Defining Success

Objective 1
Fair 2
Good 3
Excellent Score

To introduce Kidlink to educational leaders in Gambia Made only a few attempts to do the task Made several attempts to do the task and did follow ups Involved in the task, doing follow ups, working on a revised plan for continued progress

Total score for dream project (date ________)

A Look Inside the Numbers

A score of 1

Your dream goals and rubrics will not necessarily look like the rubric above but we will use this for our discussion purposes. Suppose you had to rate this first objective with a number 1. What do you do next? The description for a score of 1 says, "Made only a few attempts to do the task." What does this tell you? What kinds of questions do you need to ask? What has your team learned? How does your team feel about its performance?

Where is the breakdown in achieving this objective toward your goal?
Why were only a few attempts made?
Do the team members support each other sufficiently?
Are your goals too lofty?
Do people take you seriously?
Does your team have facts and figures prepared?
Is there a piece of your plan that just isn't working and must be revised?
What would it take to increase performance for this objective?
Brainstorm ways to take this effort to a higher level,
What resources do you have to achieve this higher level of success?
Do you have enough time to do the tasks you need to do?

A score of 2

A score of 2 is the middle of the road. It is average. Are you satisfied with a 2? Does your dream plan deserve "middle of the road" or "average" performance? A score of 2 implies that your team "made several attempts to do the task and did follow ups."

Does your team give 100% of themselves or do they simply do only the minimum required?
Is this effort enough to achieve the goal you are seeking?
What would it take to increase performance for this objective?
Brainstorm ways to take this effort to a higher level,
What resources do you have to achieve this higher level of success?
If lack of sufficient time is a problem how can this be solved?

A score of 3

A score of 3 is excellent! Congratulate yourselves and identify the reasons for your achievements. What strategies are you using to assure success?

Weighing Your Options

Now that you have examined your rubric results you must decide on the future of your dream plan. Will you continue the plan or consider it complete now?

Return for continued evaluation and revision of your dream plan.