Tara's rubric starts assessment from the bottom, checking each criterion and counting what's missing instead of what's there. Projects that looked like 8s or 10s often scored as 4s once all criteria were considered, making the judging process fairer and more accurate.
And then Tara came in clutch and basically built this rubric to say, this is how you know if something was good, right? It was like, okay, for this. And she said she had a really good piece of advice. She said when she was a teacher, you start from the bottom and work your way up, right?
Yes, again, Coming in clutch. Teaching background. If you ever need an assistant, find a teacher.
Yes, I can second this. So basically you start from the bottom, you're like, did this— doesn't meet this claim, doesn't meet this claim, doesn't meet this, doesn't meet this, doesn't meet this, doesn't meet this, doesn't meet this, doesn't meet this. And then you get your score. Because I'm like, sometimes you look at it and you go, it's a 10. Well, it didn't have this. Well, it didn't have this. Or like, you just go Well, it didn't have something and it didn't have something. So you go to 8, but really it was actually a 4, right? And so she came out with this rubric and this helped a ton in the judging process.
