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Grading Rubrics: Their Creation And Their Many Benefits To Professors And Students, Brenda D. Gibson
Grading Rubrics: Their Creation And Their Many Benefits To Professors And Students, Brenda D. Gibson
Brenda D Gibson
GRADING RUBRICS: THEIR CREATION AND THEIR MANY BENEFITS TO PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS
Though rubrics are not new to the corridors of higher education, as a non-academic for the first ten years of my legal career, I was completely unfamiliar with their utility. As a fledgling director and academic in fall 2005, grading rubrics were invaluable. They helped me to be objective as I graded my papers; they helped me to explain my grading when I returned those papers; they helped me to clarify my expectations during student memo conferences; and they helped me to divert or defend against grade appeals. …