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 ...

A rubric is an evaluation tool that identifies criteria relevant to an assignment and describes levels of performance expectations for the assignment or other student work. Grading rubrics communicate ...

GoGuardian has added new AI capabilities to its student assessment tool, Edulastic, designed to help save time in creating and grading tests. The new features include Question Generator and Assisted ...

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 ...

Christopher R. Gareis, Ed.D., is a professor of education at William & Mary. A former English teacher, soccer coach, and principal, he is the co-author of the books Teacher-Made Assessments: How to ...

In Ken Bain’s 2004 study of college faculty, he found that highly effective instructors believe that their students want to and are able to learn. These faculty build trusting relationships through ...

A rubric is an assessment tool that takes the form of a matrix, which describes levels of achievement in a specific area of performance, understanding, or behavior for a learning outcome. Faculty ...

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 ...

Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...

A teacher may find using a rubric, such as the one below, a useful way to assess the student-designed web pages. The teacher should assign a point value for the assignment and divide the points ...

The new question-of-the-week is: Do you use rubrics? Why or why not? If you do, how do you use them most effectively? If you don’t, what do you use instead? I know that I am in the minority, but I’m ...