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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

*Disclaimer: Not all rubrics are bad and when written and used effectively with proper feedback can be a useful to help students know what they have learned. Ten years ago in my career, rubrics were ...

Teachers can include students in the process of designing a tool to measure their understanding of content—an additional learning opportunity.

Most undergraduate institutions in the United States are using more comprehensive tools for assessment to evaluate students’ skills instead of traditional standardized tests, according to the Trends ...

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Researchers Jackie Arnold and Mary-Kate Sableski developed the rubric to help teachers who might have limited experience selecting titles. Two University of Dayton researchers are making it their ...

A new in-depth case study in Science finds that faculty hiring rubrics—also called criterion checklists or evaluation tools—helped mitigate gender bias in these decisions. At the same time, ...