Actually, i don’t use strict rubrics. I tell students explicitly that it’s not difficult to get a good grade in my class, but that we go thru a process of peer and instructor feedback throughout. Thankfully, it’s not difficult to engage students in what i teach so they usually tend to put in time and effort coz they’re enjoying it, rather than for grades. For my grad students (teachers) i never “give” rubrics. I let em do first draft then we decide together what a good project “looks like”. Saw sthg recently that was even more explicit about this. I know i tweeted it but need to blog about it, too