The rubric can enable students to better understand learning goals. I like the concept of a rubric enabling students to improve the quality of their course work, while they learn.
In this section, I have learned the advantages and disadvantages of using a rubric. The advantages I learned include the fact that rubrics encourage learning, it creates consistency and it encourages instructor and peer dialogue around learning.
The disadvantages are that it is time-consuming and can limit creativity.
Students are likely to perform better with less anxiety if they clearly understand the grading expectations. An effective rubric does this; however, it takes a thoughtful analysis of the criteria to ensure that it is appropriate for the assignment to create a meaningful rubric. If not, the rubric become subjective and can cause more frustration for the student and the instructor.
Rubrics help turn assignments that can be subjective into a more objective grading outcome. They help students know the expectations of the instructor and provide them the insight as to what to include in their paper in order to achieve their desirable score. Feedback from rubrics help train the students not to make the same mistake in future assignments.
When completing an assignment, it's often useful to have some guidlines and to know what's expected. It can guide the student in the appropriate direction. And also prevent the element of surprise when their grade is recieved.
Rubic is an objective way to balance scoring for students work, expectation and learning outcome.
Rubrics provide students with clear guidelines, expectations, and feedback on a given assignment. Though rubrics may take some time upfront to make, they can actually save an instructor some time in the long run since they will no longer need to type out or copy+paste feedback.
I currently do not use rubrics at my school. I teach virtual labs which are automatically graded. We have weekly discussions, but the prompt for this is quite simple.
Rubrics are not a 'one size fits all" for students or instructors.
Both students and teachers are able to use rubrics to make improvements.
I am currently using a discussion rubric designed by Concorde. One of the problems I noticed with the rubric is it does not adequately address the college's policy on APA formatting. It is not mentioned directly in the rubric and creates a problem when grading student answers and replies that either do not use APA formatting or use it correctly.
So far, I have learned that rubrics are helpful to the students to guide them in the development and production of their work, and they are also helpful to the teachers in planning the instruction, staying focused on the objectives and in evaluating the learning and the instruction. However, rubics can be complex to develop. The more holistic the rubric, the less helpful it will be in defining especific expectations; the more analytical the rubric, the more time-consuming it will be to prepare and the less useful in evaluating creativity and other factors affecting work, such as effort and time spent.
I look forward to using rubrics to help clarify work expectations for my students and to help focus my instruction.
I am not a big fan of holistic rubric.
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.
