Millions of high school students take Advanced Placement examinations each year. I have been grading the free-response questions on the AP Psychology exam for more than a decade. Over the years, I ...

File naming convention: Please include your name. If I get 10 files all called “my proposal” or “FOR 690 project ideas,” I will have trouble finding yours. Prepare a 10-minute talk with visual aids ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly half a year on the job, Aspen Middle School Principal Tom Dodd discussed the benefits and challenges of the middle ...

This rubric is based on four elements that together work for an effective paper: thesis, evidence and analysis, structure, and style: The A paper makes an interesting, complex, and important argument ...

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 ...