Teachers and school leaders can work together to ensure that report cards function as trustworthy indicators of what students ...

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 ...

Join College of Arts and Sciences faculty members in a discussion on how rubrics can be used to provide students and faculty with meaningful assessment feedback. Gusztav Demeter, instructor in the ...

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 ...

As an experiment, more than 1,500 teachers were given a piece of writing from an imaginary 2nd grader. Both of the papers were identical—full of large print and youthful misspellings—the only ...

Ensuring grades are fair and meaningful is not as easy as A, B, C (or D or F). As they address the lingering affects of the COVID-19 pandemic, districts are struggling to square fairness and ...

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, ...