Whether in the workplace or the learning environment, feedback is a tool to help foster improvement. This feedback should be constructive in such a manner that it encourages more of the good practices and disccourages the bad practices. The use of a rubric helps provide structure to the quality assessment of an assigment submitted by the student. Providing this rubric beforehand gives advance notice of how the student will be evaluated and graded. This same rubric can be provided again to the student with a breakdown of points awarded, any comments, and the grade total. Using feedback methods that are constructive and specific help the student to improve upon themselves while providing the instructor with valuable feedback about any changes that are need in future course sections.
