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What is a Rubric? Do Practitioners and the Literature Agree?

Citation

Wenzlaff, T. L., Fager, J. J., & Coleman, M. J. (1999). What is a Rubric? Do Practitioners and the Literature Agree? Contemporary Education, 70(4), 41.

Abstract

Discusses the merits and values of using rubrics in teaching. Use of portfolios in classrooms or within programs as a means of assessment, evaluation or research papers; Definition of a rubric as a scaled set of criteria that defines for the teacher and student what a range of acceptable and unacceptable performance looks like.

Themes: Assessment of education, Rating of students