Rubric fails

Hard-won lessons from the coalface

Unless you’re a first-time reader, you’ll know I’m a fan of rubrics. They’re the backbone of most evaluations I’ve tackled in the last 15(ish) years and it’s no exaggeration to say they’ve transformed the way I see and do evaluation.

Though it’s accurate to describe a rubric as a matrix of criteria and standards, and a way to make evaluative reasoning e…