Includes introductory sentence that includes the author, title, and main idea. Has supporting sentences that highlight key/major points that support the author's main ideas. Does not include personal ...

Explicit statements of your grading criteria can be very useful. A writing rubric that specifies the categories of assessment—and, perhaps, defines levels of success in each category—can help students ...

My youngest came home with the map of Africa he had worked on all last week in class, his disappointing grade scrawled across his assignment book. "What happened?" I asked. From the teacher's point of ...

In education–and particularly with my graduate students in higher education–students occasionally focus on the individual points of an assignment rubric instead of stepping back and looking ...

No writing course is ever the inoculation students need in order to learn all they can about writing. To compose many texts, students need ongoing practice. Yet when they leave our classes, they ...

Signature assignments are an embedded assessment strategy in which a common assignment is given to students in several different courses, sections, or co-curricular experiences. This assignment should ...

I often say that I’d teach for free but need to be paid to grade. Grading is hard work. It’s not only time-consuming, but it is stressful, exhausting and at times even agonizing. All too often, ...

Basically, a rubric is a set of criteria. There are two main types of rubrics we use in the department: The first one identifies qualitative features of letter grades (A+ through F) or the qualitative ...

My youngest came home with the map of Africa he had worked on all last week in class, his disappointing grade scrawled across his assignment book. "What happened?" I asked. From the teacher's point of ...