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Originally Posted by RANDY P
Rubric from what I seen is a set of criteria with with varying degrees. poor OK exemplary, etc. etc.
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This.
I use them, because the kids are now asking for them and the administration wants us to. This was new to me when I started hearing it when I went back after a couple years off. Of course I resisted at first because, hey I'm old and I don't like change.
But I tried it and found it actually helps with grading because it provides a disciplined, repeatable, and data-driven methodology for evaluating written work. It's also nice to refer to when a student wants to contest their grade on their paper a week after you graded it and can't remember because you just spent that week reading the deathless prose of 150 undergrads and you just want to claw your eyes out.
(I have a stack of papers on my desk waiting to be graded. Ugh.)