The Trouble with Rubrics

By A. Kohn. 2006

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Reliability and validity of rubrics for assessment through writing (2010, unknown): “One group has studied the objectivity of rubrics (Breland, 1983; Coffman, 1971; McColly, 1970; Spandel, 2006; Wolfe, 1997), and another group has claimed they are overly reductive (Flower & Hayes, 1981; Kohn, 2006; Mabry, 1999; Pula & Huot, 1993).”
Putting Rubrics to the Test: The Effect of a Model, Criteria Generation, and Rubric‐Referenced Self‐Assessment on Elementary School Students' Writing (2008, result): “We also note that the finding regarding the effect of treatment on criteria such as voice, or ideas and content, stands as a rejoinder to recent critiques of rubrics (Kohn, 2006; Wilson, 2006).”