Most recognize the weaknesses of "teaching to the test," but the exhausting pressure to cram is only part 1 of the problem; part 2 is that bubble tests disappear from life after school while self-direction, courage, creativity, & open-ended problem-solving become crucial.
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Well, usually these rubrics are designed, not, because instructors are incapable of evaluating work, but because it is *very* difficult to evaluate work fairly. If everything is your best guess the standard you use on the 20th project is guaranteed to be different than the 1st.
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All this assumes that it is in some sense necessary to *rank* students rather than evaluate their progress individually, which — whether fair or not — has a lot of arguably concerning social effects
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This leaves aside unconscious biases of instructors towards students based on their backgrounds.
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The tension is real -- software is still in crisis. We still don't know how to program.
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