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 ...

Ensure students know the expectations of an assignment(s) rubrics should be shared with students in advance Clearly justify grades for students Rubrics can be used to evaluate progress, as well as to ...

Rubrics aren’t going away anytime soon, but let’s not pretend they always help students or tackle the biggest problem in student writing. Rubrics give students criteria for how their grade will be ...

Goals and objectives are measured by a performance assessment in the courses required for the Philosophy major. Specifically, student performance in writing essays, and essay exam questions, will be ...

Turnitin, a provider of originality checking and online grading solutions, has partnered with the English Professional Learning Council to develop writing rubrics aligned to the Common Core State ...

Assessment is an ongoing challenge that requires different strategies, techniques and instruments to assess learning and strengthen students’ ownership of their learning processes. Rubrics stand out ...

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 ...

Some history professors at Utah State have mapped out learning objectives, creating a detailed scoring guide for student papers. Here is how three seniors who are history majors say they have used the ...

(This is the third post in a five-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) In Part Two, Matthew Johnson, Emily Phillips Galloway, Robert Jiménez, Holland White, Joy Hamm, and ...

The Technical writing requirement can be met by completion of a scholarly publication as defined by the following three options: Science-based paper accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal ...