Talk:Rubric (academic)

message: I'm in the process of editing the article to reflect a broader, more inclusive use of the term.
Jborgioli (talk) 00:07, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revisions 

message: Hello.  I am happy to see an article about rubrics, but this article emphasizes the disadvantages of rubrics, while saying almost nothing about the advantages.  For example, one of the primary reasons to use a rubric is to help students (or learners, to be more general; rubrics are not limited to use in schools) understand clearly what is expected of them before they begin a project or an assignment.  Used properly, rubrics allow students to have more responsibility for their own learning and demonstration of understanding.
A second use of rubrics is completely outside of school.  As a photographer, I once set up a rubric for a good photograph.  It helped me look at my own photographs with a more discerning eye, and immediately improved my photography.  I would never put this in a wikipedia article directly, but the idea of using a rubric to evaluate a body of work, regardless of the final audience for that work (teacher, consumer, etc.) belongs in here.
I signed up for a wikipedia account today, so I'll get to this at some point, but if someone is ready to put these thoughts in here, please do so.
Japhyr 18:40, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion for Improvement 

message: This article talks about the educational system.  It seems a bit biased in parts.  Especially as it relates to how the educational system should work.  I think that those parts out to be removed.
64.26.68.82 (talk) 20:04, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article seems biased 

message: This article does not give the etymology of the word. Does the word "rubric" derive from someone's name or a practice?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.209.225.252 (talk) 12:00, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background to the etymology of the word is lacking 

message: In Britain (and perhaps elsewhere), "rubric" doesn't normally refer to how an exam is marked (that's usually called a "mark scheme") but instead to the instructions given to candidates. These can either be instructions on how to do the exam as a whole, typically on the front of the question paper (for example "answer all questions from section A and two questions from section B", perhaps with a statement of what happens if a candidate "infringes" the rubric)https://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/mathematics/study/current/handbook/assess/rubric.aspx or instructions on how to carry out particular exercises (for example "fill in the gaps", perhaps in the target language of a foreign language exam)http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/spanish/examskills/1understandingexamrubricrev1.shtml
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I think it ought at least to be mentioned (by someone actually expert on this, which I am not) that the meaning of "rubric" as, in effect, a mark scheme is not universal, even confined to academia.
Uncriticalsimon (talk) 10:31, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: It was until today the only sense which I knew of the word. DuncanHill (talk) 21:31, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK meaning of "rubric" as instructions to candidates