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

GoGuardian has added new AI capabilities to its student assessment tool, Edulastic, designed to help save time in creating and grading tests. The new features include Question Generator and Assisted ...

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This session will help you design valuable rubrics for your assignments. This session will discuss different styles of rubrics, how to create different rubric criteria and how to determine point ...

Move to the next tab, Levels and Criteria. The levels and criteria can be edited by using the pulldown arrow next to the item. Continue editing or adding criteria and levels until the rubric is ...

A colleague of mine once quipped that RateMyProfessor.com should be called HateMyProfessor.com, underscoring the idea that students who fill out evaluations often come to them to be overly critical of ...

The third and final session in the Creating Effective Rubrics series focuses on how to build rubrics that increase instructor effectiveness and make grading assignments easier and faster.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...