scoring guides vs rubrics

Scoring guides give you a pretty cut and paste idea of how many points certain criteria is worth for an A in the class.

Likewise, grading rubrics give you a flexible idea of what it takes to get an A in this course.

What do I feel is more beneficial in this class?

How about neither.

This is the first class I have taken where the teacher has said "How do you want to be graded?" It is also the first class that the teacher said on the first day "Do the work, and I am not one to give out a B."

With that in mind, its simple to me. We don't need a rubric. We need to do the project WE decided upon, and do it well. We need to get excited about the topic we decided upon, and show it through our work.

This class does not work like other classes. The reason this class, and Dr. Rice's experiment if you will, works so well, is because it relies on upperclassmen to act like upperclassmen. It requires students like us who give a damn about their education and are willing to put aside the grading charts to get some hands on experience. We do that, and our knowledge of the topic will come. We will be smarter for it, and more reliable. Oh, and to make things better, its going to show through our projects the effort we put into it. Not the effort to get an A, but the effort to impact the freshmen.

I say forget the rubrics and scoring guides. If you seriously must have something to go off of. Set your highest ability as the goal. Or if that doesn't work, compete to have a better project than group one. Because I can vouch that there is going to be some high quality work coming from our way.