Rubrics are helpful to both student and the instructor and simplifies grading and ensure consistency.
Never thought about a rubric as such:
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Rubrics improve student performance by clearly showing the students how their work will be evaluated and what is expected.
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Rubrics help students become better judges of the quality of their own work.
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Rubrics allow for student self-reflection and self-assessment.
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Rubrics allow assessment to be more objective and consistent.
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Rubrics force the instructor to clarify his/her criteria in specific terms.
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Rubrics reduce the amount of time spent evaluating student work.
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Rubrics promote student awareness about the criteria for use in assessing peer performance.
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Rubrics provide useful feedback to the instructor regarding the effectiveness of the instruction.
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Rubrics provide students with more informative feedback about their strengths and areas in need of improvement.
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Rubrics accommodate heterogeneous classes by offering a range of quality levels.
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Rubrics are easy to use and easy to explain.
The time consuming part of rubrics is the creation of them. They can save lots of time in grading. HOWEVER, there seems to be a need to tweak them often. How would this work when we don't have access to our Master Shells on the spot? Wouldn't they need to be tweaked there, rather than our classroom?
The use of rubrics allows the students to analyze assignments
I can speak from experience as I have been developing and using rubrics for quite some time. They are time consuming to develop but the payoffs are huge. More efficient, consistent grading and better feedback for students.
I have used rubrics my whole career in teaching, the way it is explained here is far too confusing. The courses I teach are more analytical than creative. I have definitely learned to keep it simple.
Proper use of rubrics give students a clear understanding of what are expected. It justifies the grade the instructor gives.
I find that students need orientation of the rubrics after the lecture is completed as they now know the project better and the rubrics provides a good sturcture how to organize the final project. Orientation and some examples help student to understand and follow better.
A ruberic is a new name for a long standing practice. Tests, quizzes, homework, labs and practical finals always had different weights. When you add up all labs and give an average you have gained nothing. You have to isolate and review each grade to learn the weakest parts of a students. Now a computer does what people did. All with less contact with the students.
Verification that using a rubric in an art class, depending on the assignment, can stifle creativity. However, in discussions and other research assignments these rubrics can be quite helpful for students.
It was very informative about the different types of rubrics and I plan to use it to upgrade some of my rubrics I currently use.
Rubrics not only allow the students to know exactly how an assessment will be graded, but it can also provide them with a structure for completing a task.
Students need the rubric as much as the instructors.
Yes rubrics can be time consuming in developing but can save grading time later. THey can be refined from term to term. They also set expectations.
Rubrics have advantages and disadvantages.
Rubrics are a great way to give definition to a project. They allow students to follow a guide throughout a project to help them focus on elements which will lead to a successful assignment. Rubrics are not needed for every project especially those that focus more on an artistic view.
I learned that there are different types of rubrics that have different strengths and features. While I was familiar with the benefits associated with creating rubrics, before reading this section I hadn't considered the shortcomings associated with rubrics, such as the time spent to create them, the lack of explanations they might fail to provide, or their stifling of students' creativity.
I learned the difference between analytical and holistic rubrics although I would have liked to have been given examples to "see" the difference in action.
There are several different kinds of rubrics and you need to choose the one appropriate for your situation.
Rubrics are great tools for evaluating students and for course feedback. However, they can be very time consuming to create.
I use rubrics a lot, and I liked that the narrative brought out that a rubric can lead to reflection on the part of the instructor about the nature of the assignment and the design of the rubric.
