Projects with Rubrics
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What is a rubric?
Advantages
Shows strengths and weaknesses of students: Used more formatively, rubrics can help instructors get a clearer picture of the strengths and weaknesses of their class. By recording the component scores and tallying up the number of students scoring below an acceptable level on each component, instructors can identify those skills or concepts that need more instructional time and student effort.
Students can self assess: Grading rubrics are also valuable to students. A rubric can help instructors communicate to students the specific requirements and acceptable performance standards of an assignment. When rubrics are given to students with the assignment description, they can help students monitor and assess their progress as they work toward clearly indicated goals. When assignments are scored and returned with the rubric, students can more easily recognize the strengths and weaknesses of their work and direct their efforts accordingly.
Disadvantages
- For the teacher creating the rubric, they may find the task of developing, testing, evaluating, and updating time consuming.
- Rubrics can also restrict the students mind power in that they will feel that they need to complete the assignment strictly to the rubric instead of taking the initiative to explore their learning.
- If the criteria that is in the rubric is too complex, students may feel overwhelmed with the assignment, and little success may be imminent.