How Rubrics Help Students Learn November 28, 2010. Aurora Wallis Durfee Kristin Murphy for The Chronicle.

*Disclaimer: Not all rubrics are bad and when written and used effectively with proper feedback can be a useful to help students know what they have learned. Ten years ago in my career, rubrics ...

Students also emphasized that they discussed rubrics in their classes (a sign of best practices) and that they referred to them when working on assignments. When responding to a checklist, they noted ...

A rubric is an evaluation tool that identifies criteria relevant to an assignment and describes levels of performance expectations for the assignment or other student work. Grading rubrics communicate ...

For students, rubrics: Ensure students know the expectations of an assignment(s) rubrics should be shared with students in advance; Clearly justify grades for students; Rubrics can be used to evaluate ...

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Rubrics are a useful tool to help students understand teacher expectations and develop their own skills. But if students just see them as a way to get graded, the benefit is lost.

All of this, of course, assumes that the purpose of rubrics is to convey response. More often, however, they are used to enforce uniformity of evaluation—as a preparation to test-taking.

Excellent students use rubrics to dot I's and cross T's. Less savvy students use them as guidelines to improve ‘okay' performance. In other words, a major function of rubrics is EDUCATIONAL.