Thursday, May 24, 2012

Rants on a Rubric


Rubrics are a means of establishing clear expectations for your students. Rubrics force you to fit into a rigid grading bubble. Rubrics help maintain equitable grading practices. Rubrics limit a student's creative choice and unique written voice. Rubrics help identify the standards and skills needed to be displayed. Rubrics emphasize the value of certain skills and abilities while devaluing others. Rubrics help maintain a clear set of criteria that could be shared throughout a department or curriculum. Rubrics can be altered re-establishing expectations from teacher-to-teacher. Rubrics don't provide feedback. Rubrics do provide feedback. Rubrics, rubrics, rubrics, what to do with rubrics. Rigid rubrics really wreck rambling rookie writers.   

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