Rubric. Culmination. When did these become words?

[vash]

Originally Posted by MBAtarga

Too bad the game/toy was named Rubik's cube - after the inventor instead of rubric....

i was so confused..i actually googled it. Rubik not equal to Rubric..right?

googling again..damn "my English is a my second language"

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by Noah930

My point in the OP, was why did we decide to use these words when we used to (and still do) have words that worked just fine? In place of rubric, use criteria. In place of culmination, use graduation. It's what we did when I was a kid 3 decades ago.

You grew up in one of them there stuffy Oxford type homes, didn't you?

Criteria?? Graduation?? You mean needylist and endytime, right?






"Graduation" specifically means the celebratory end of a period of education. Why keep telling kids that they are "ending" some period of time, which implies that each period of education is independent of each other period of education. In fact, education is a continuous flowing stream from birth to death. So, instead of creating these artificial dams called "graduation", you should talk about the culmination of education to that point in time, which doens't compartmentalize your educational life.

[KFC911]

I never culminated college....well, I had a beer or sumthin'...can't recall

....but I can tilt my head like a puppy!

[vash]

on a side note. i am attending a grade school graduation party in a few weeks.

WTF? when did that become a thing?! i love they young lady and will happily attend, with a gift in tow, but seriously. parents will celebrate anything these days.

(sorry, i am bitter perhaps. growing up Chinese is different )

[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by vash

on a side note. i am attending a grade school graduation party in a few weeks.

WTF? when did that become a thing?! i love they young lady and will happily attend, with a gift in tow, but seriously. parents will celebrate anything these days.

(sorry, i am bitter perhaps. growing up Chinese is different )

Kindergarten graduation last week here. I just shook my head and had another piece of cake.

But the curriculum and expectations put on these 5yos! Back in 1979 I think the "curriculum" was "don't eat your boogers and keep your hands to yourself".

And we use "rubric" all of the time when discussing various scoring schemes for the vulnerability assessments that we do. They're rigid sets of criteria that allow numerous people to (hopefully) get the same scores for a given scenario.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by id10t

Rubric yes, 'cause I work in education and use 'em. Good for grading fairly across all students.

Vocabulary is good, but I'd struggle to use culmination when some other word would do....

I still don't know wtf the word means

Math is good too but we don't use hexidecimal because of the id10ts....

Puleeze

I'll culminate my posting now

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by Noah930

My point in the OP, was why did we decide to use these words when we used to (and still do) have words that worked just fine? In place of rubric, use criteria. In place of culmination, use graduation. It's what we did when I was a kid 3 decades ago.

And even though we now call that ceremony when you finish school "culmination," we also still call the evening class celebration "grad night."

Originally Posted by fastfredracing

Because big words make you sound fancy

It is so consultants can sound smarter than the average bear, and can charge more. And it sounds cool on your linkedIn page. lol

EDIT: Sorry, So consultants can increase revenues 70% over the previous 3 year period.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by KC911

I still don't know wtf the word means

Math is good too but we don't use hexidecimal because of the id10ts....

Puleeze

I'll culminate my posting now

I disculminated my posting to point out the fact that my smartazz can't speel along with my limited vocabulary.

It's hexadecimal

Sounds as if only "educators" have a clue what it means and use it....hmmm.

Seriously?

[wayner]

I always thought if a person was to use that word it would be in the context of an apocalyptic adventure culminating in a cacophony of sounds from that blasted contraption!

But thats just me...

[id10t]

Originally Posted by KC911

I still don't know wtf the word means

Math is good too but we don't use hexidecimal because of the id10ts....

Puleeze

I'll culminate my posting now

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Hex is OK for visual representation, but binary is where it is at

[id10t]

Originally Posted by KC911

I disculminated my posting to point out the fact that my smartazz can't speel along with my limited vocabulary.

It's hexadecimal

Sounds as if only "educators" have a clue what it means and use it....hmmm.

Seriously?

Limited application to other fields? Or in use but by a different name - like "specification for bid" or "punch list" or ....

Anyway, for education, I find them quite useful as both a teacher and a student.

As a teacher, I have a quick checklist to run down for projects, which lets me get grading done not only quick, but much more objectively. Should a grade get challenged, the rubric, the choice I made on it, and the definition of what is required for each level of the outcome is there for me, my chair, or the provost to examine. When I'm done checking stuff on the rubric, I have a score. In theory, anyone else grading the same paper using the same rubric should come up with a near exact match to my score. And only "near" because some of it is still very subjective.

As a student, I like it, especially since it details exactly what I have to do to earn an A on a project or paper. Rubrics used for grading and made available to the student BEFORE submission time increases the quality of student submissions, and helped me do a 4.0 for my bs degree (the AS feeder I did 15 years ago not so much...)

[KFC911]

I still have no freakin' idea what yer talkin' about....can't you see my head is cocked over to one side ?

I'm no dummy....or am I?

Don't you dare answer that !

[wayner]

Isn't there some old rubric that states that one consult the dictionary, such action culminating in knowledge that a word is often misused or carries with it some colloquial connotation in opposition to societal norms?

...or something like that :-)


Merriam Webster Dictionary:

(1) the title of a statute
(2) : something under which a thing is classed : CATEGORY
the sensations falling under the general rubric, "pressure"
— F. A. Geldard
c : an explanatory or introductory commentary : GLOSS
specifically : an editorial interpolation
2 : a heading of a part of a book or manuscript done or underlined in a color (such as red) different from the rest
3 : an established rule, tradition, or custom

[DanielDudley]

Remember when you were young, and your brain was like a sponge? Then later you started to really understand all that you had learned, and you really started to grasp the concepts behind simple definitions. After a while, you started to create your own understanding of the world, and the future seemed limitless. Nothing seemed impossible, and knowledge seemed to go on forever...

Then comes the fourth stage of learning where a man decides he knows everything he needs to know, also known as ''Get the hell off my lawn.''.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by id10t

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Hex is OK for visual representation, but binary is where it is at

What if yer looking at a "core dump', on paper....about 15" tall....and I tell ya there's a "bit polarity error"...oh about half-way in ...

Just talk like us regular folks outside the tower...

Rubricly yers.....

Whatever that means ???

[Kraftwerk]

There is a certain metric to the entomology of the new lingo, best not to parse it's finer meanings and soporifically get along.

[wayner]

Originally Posted by DanielDudley

Remember when you were young, and your brain was like a sponge? Then later you started to really understand all that you had learned, and you really started to grasp the concepts behind simple definitions. After a while, you started to create your own understanding of the world, and the future seemed limitless. Nothing seemed impossible, and knowledge seemed to go on forever...

Then comes the fourth stage of learning where a man decides he knows everything he needs to know, also known as ''Get the hell off my lawn.''.

Im with you.
I still don't understand how all of this that I posted translates into some teacher's marking system

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951

but much rumination.....

I don't care about how much money you were paid.

[wayner]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

I don't care about how much money you were paid.

That took me a minute to get.

HA!
Coffee out the nose