Tech Companies Want You

The New York Times reports how tech companies are in need of code programmers. In a New York Times article Steve Lohr reports that "Companies cannot hire fast enough. Glassdoor, an employment site, lists more than 7,300 openings for software engineers, ahead of job openings for nurses, who are chronically in short supply. For the smaller category of data scientists, there are more than 1,200 job openings. Demand is highest in San Francisco. Nationally, the average base salary for software engineers is $100,000, and $112,000 for data scientists," and Sonaly Kohli in the Atlantic Monthly reports that there is a shortage of coders and how important it is to teach coding to teens.

Rubric Nightmare

One of the reasons I started using rubrics was because the traditional way of  grading assignments was too time consuming for me and sometimes ineffective. So, I started using rubrics and life changed a bit, but not too much.  I found that when I had created the perfect rubric,  it was not the perfect rubric at all. I would come across issues that were not present in the rubric I had created. Even though I still use rubrics, since I refuse to go back to the traditional way, there is got to be a better way. According to Jennifer Gonzalez posting on " Cult of Pedagogy" the answer to this problem might be solved using a single-point rubric.  She says," A single-point rubric is a lot like an analytic rubric, because it breaks down the components of an assignment into different criteria. What makes it different is that it only describes the criteria for proficiency; it does not attempt to list all the ways a student could fall short, nor does it specify how a student could exceed expectations."