I know that you have some real criticisms of the use of rubrics. I did want to mention that i have used rubrics to try to avoid something which is unwell done in petermsafro lonk, that comes an ians tis ruberixton. There's another extreme that we could go to in a positive way, which is to recognize that humans are really high resolution. And so to recognize that sometimes we just need to talk to students about what they're learning and not have expectations about what shape that conversation might take. Be open for surp great books don't create much space in them for surprise. The other thing that i would push back on
Jesse Stommel shares about how to ungrade on episode 217 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The worst rubrics don’t create space for surprise or discovery.
—Jesse Stommel
Asking [students] to evaluate themselves ends up being a really important learning experience.
—Jesse Stommel
Something as complicated as learning can’t be reduced to … rows in a spreadsheet.
—Jesse Stommel
Just taking the grade off the table doesn’t do the harder work of demystifying that culture we’ve created in education.
—Jesse Stommel