ABSTRACT
Rubrics do many things in terms of student learning, classroom communication, and even collegial collaboration, but when the clock starts nudging its way toward the wee hours of the morning, the ways in which rubrics make grading faster and easier is when their value becomes obvious. Indeed, many of us find the speedy, graphic nature of grading with rubrics so appealing that we have begun to use them to grade ourselves. In this chapter, the authors include examples of such grading with “metarubrics.” Three- to five-level rubrics with check boxes are the most time consuming to create but the fastest and easiest to use. Three- to five-level rubrics that require us to circle relevant text take a bit more time to use. Scoring guide rubrics do not take much longer to use than three-to five-level rubrics when the work being graded is so strong.
