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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...