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Hannah,
For the most part I find that rubrics help to build consistency across the sections that I am teaching. However, in certain instances they can become cumbersome when the instructions for the assignment are vague. When this occurs, the categories can be too general to allow the instructor to adequately student mastery of a particular area. Other times the rubric may be limited in evaluating the variety of student responses.
Aaron,
Maybe the assignment can be broken down into segments and not be one great big project?
Sometimes the assignments given in the course can have to many parts. Makes keeping track of the rubric difficult.
Hannah,
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In my opinion, when the project/assignment is too cumbersome. I have many times started to create a rubric and thought WOW - this is too much. But, really it wasn't the rubric, it was the project. So, it helped me see what all I was asking the students to do in one project and I was able to break it down into two projects and they did better and saw the total connection between the projects and the learning outcomes.