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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Program-level student learning outcomes (SLOs) describe the core skills and knowledge students should develop at the end of a program of study ...
Peer review is a process by which students are asked to look at other students' work and provide feedback. While most commonly used for writing assignments, peer review can be used for any project or ...
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 ...
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 ...