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By DM14TM12
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I was surprised to read that anyone would consider rubrics to give good feedback. I have found that assignments graded with rubrics give almost no feedback. It is a canned assessment with little added for improvement.
Many rubrics distinguish performance by use of the terms 'consistently' or 'often' in the descriptors. These are subjective terms and meaningless in any real manner. Secondly, too many educators lazily use the scale of a rubric to assign the final score. No nuance is available in such an approach, especially in a 4 or 6 point scale. Is a 5 (83%, B-) that significantly different | |
from a 6 (100%, A) in such a subjective scale? Certainly not in my experience as a college faculty member,
The use of rubrics for rudimentary evaluation has some merit, but their use in grading should be abolished.
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