Chambers, Julia
CA
McCuster, S. (2013, April 21). 5 ways to blow the top off rubrics. Free Technology for Teachers. [Weblog post]. Retrieved from http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/04/5-ways-to-blow-top-off-of-rubrics.html#.UqVUkNIcaSo
Shawn McCuster's guest post makes a strong argument for limiting rubrics, used by teachers to support grading consistency and used by students to ensure they are meeting the goal objectives. McCuster's argument suggests that rubrics limit students' creativity, innovation, and excitement in learning. Students rely too heavily on checking off the key objectives listed on the rubric so they may get an A and miss opportunities to discover, innovate, and reinvent the learning. What's more, rubrics tend to ignore such factors as student creativity and innovation, which are often at the core of project-based learning.
Evaluation: McCuster raises several important points about using rubrics in assessing students learning. However, rubrics can be designed to meet the lesson content objectives and 21st century skills, such as creativity, use of new technology (taking risks), and following their passion or interests in the pursuit of the unit objectives. I think that a rubric could be created to incorporate many of the 21st century skills and used as a portion of every standard grading assessment.
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