Posts Tagged ‘rubrics’

Rubrics: The Essentials

Posted Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 by Maryellen Weimer

“Teaching with Rubrics: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.” What a great title and the article is equally as good. For a quick review, rubrics, as this author points out, are most simply lists of criteria and levels of quality. (p. 27) What makes them good, bad, and ugly? Here’s a list condensed from [...]

Pros and Cons of Rubrics

Posted Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 by Maryellen Weimer

I had dinner with a group of faculty recently during which we had a prolonged and intense discussion of rubrics—I know, only college teachers could become impassioned about a topic like this. The debate centered on whether rubrics could capture all the aspects of an assignments or whether they constrained both instructors and students.