Innovating the 21st-Century University: It’s Time! (EDUCAUSE Review. © 2010 Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 45, no. 1 (January/February 2010): 16-29 Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams Don Tapscott ( Twitter: @dtapscott) is the author or co-author of thirteen books on technology in society, including Grown Up Digital (2008), Growing Up Digital (1997), and Wikinomics (2006).
He is Chairman of the think tank nGenera Insight and an Adjunct Professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and he consults to universities in several countries. Anthony D. Comments on this article can be posted to the web via the link at the bottom of this page. Encyclopedias, newspapers, and record labels have a lot in common. Yet today the businesses of encyclopedias, newspapers, and record labels are in various stages of collapse.
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Trouble with Rubrics. March 2006 -- vol. 95, no. 4 Once upon a time I vaguely thought of assessment in dichotomous terms: The old approach, which consisted mostly of letter grades, was crude and uninformative, while the new approach, which included things like portfolios and rubrics, was detailed and authentic. Only much later did I look more carefully at the individual floats rolling by in the alternative assessment parade -- and stop cheering. For starters, I realized that it’s hardly sufficient to recommend a given approach on the basis of its being better than old-fashioned report cards.
By that criterion, just about anything would look good. I eventually came to understand that not all alternative assessments are authentic. My growing doubts about rubrics in particular were prompted by the assumptions on which this technique rested and also the criteria by which they (and assessment itself) were typically judged. Finally, there’s the matter of that promise to make assessment “quick and efficient.” 1. 2. IngentaConnect Home. ELI7034.pdf (application/pdf Object)