What are the strengths and limitations of using rubrics?
Some Strengths • Rubrics make expectations for learning explicit and accessible to students and to the larger community • Rubrics can complement your instruction and your assessment practices without feeling like add-on curriculum. • Rubrics can be used in classrooms (traditional or virtual) for elementary-level students on up to post-graduate students. • Students can use rubrics for virtually any subject or topic of study. • Rubrics can be used to target and cultivate creative and critical thinking Some Limitations • Rubrics can not capture all the nuances or intangibles of assessing student work or progress; however when used with other forms of assessment, rubrics provide useful information as part of a balanced evaluation of student learning. • Depending on the students or subject matter or project, using the rubrics may require a greater amount of individualized feedback from the teacher. Once expectations are made public by the rubric, students may actually demand more specific h
