Millions of high school students take Advanced Placement examinations each year. I have been grading the free-response questions on the AP Psychology exam for more than a decade. Over the years, I ...

Rubrics are one of the most useful assessment tools a teacher can have. A well-designed rubric tells students exactly what ...

Includes introductory sentence that includes the author, title, and main idea. Has supporting sentences that highlight key/major points that support the author's main ideas. Does not include personal ...

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 ...

*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 ...

To give students the grading rubric and help them understand our criteria for evaluating their work; to have students revise their thesis/introduction with our grading criteria in mind Pass out the ...

This rubric is based on four elements that together work for an effective paper: thesis, evidence and analysis, structure, and style: The A paper makes an interesting, complex, and important argument ...

I often say that I’d teach for free but need to be paid to grade. Grading is hard work. It’s not only time-consuming, but it is stressful, exhausting and at times even agonizing. All too often, ...

File naming convention: Please include your name. If I get 10 files all called “my proposal” or “FOR 690 project ideas,” I will have trouble finding yours. Prepare a 10-minute talk with visual aids ...