Create rubrics to establish specific criteria and performance expectations for assignments and discussions to make your grading expectations and criteria transparent and consistent. While rubrics ...

Back in the day, when the teacher passed out a new writing assignment the whole class groaned – unless there was a rubric attached. The other kids were likely still complaining, but I felt relieved. A ...

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 ...