It has been one of those nights. I sat with project afterproject doing what I have to do — assess them. A few needed littlemore than a glance, because I could see exactly what was requiredalmost jump ...

This post is by Kathleen Cushman, an independent journalist and educator who since 1989 has documented powerful teaching and learning around the U.S. Her summary of “how youth learn” appears in this ...

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Task: Each student will make a 5-minute presentation on the changes in one community over the past 30 years. The student may focus the presentation in any way he or she wishes, but there needs to be a ...

Move to the next tab, Levels and Criteria. The levels and criteria can be edited by using the pulldown arrow next to the item. Continue editing or adding criteria and levels until the rubric is ...

*Disclaimer: Not all rubrics are bad and when written and used effectively with proper feedback can be a useful to help students know what they have learned. Ten years ago in my career, rubrics were ...

Rubrics are scoring tools that explicitly represent the performance expectations for an assignment or piece of work. A rubric divides the assigned work into component parts and provides clear ...

Back in the day, when the teacher passed out a new writing assignment the whole class groaned – unless there was a rubric attached. The other kids were likely still complaining, but I felt relieved. A ...

Develop a homework assignment that would be appropriate for either a Psyc 1 or Psyc 5 class to complete in a one week time period (i.e. no huge term papers for this one). The homework assignment ...

A colleague of mine once quipped that RateMyProfessor.com should be called HateMyProfessor.com, underscoring the idea that students who fill out evaluations often come to them to be overly critical of ...