I remember I was being evaluated by a really tired boss. She said to me, "I wish I could evaluate you faculty with a numberless rubric." I had no idea what that was, so she continued, "That way, instead of having faculty dread evaluations and dread hearing a low evaluation grade, I can simply focus on advising faculty how they can improve their performance, after all, isn't that what evaluations are for?" I remember she sounded tired. Tired of faculty defending how they teach. Tired of teachers getting offended by a low grade. She thought that if the rubric were numberless, it would make her job as Faculty Evaluator so much easier, and so much less stressful.
She continued, "Imagine, Yvonne, if all I had to do was just simply tell you the improvements you needed to make in your classroom, rather than giving you a score, wouldn't that make it easier for you to focus on your improvements? And it would also prove that the administration trusts and respects its faculty by not giving them 'grades' which is for students." " But alas, it is not up to me. I am only a junior boss and I too have to obey the higher ups."
It was at that time hearing how tired my boss was that I first thought about 'Numberless Rubrics' where the evaluator simply fills out a rubric of what you did right and wrong and then tells you what to fix. The more I thought about this concept, the more I liked it! After all, I am all for improving performance, while being not stressed!
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