Rubrics overload students with pseudoscientific feedback when they should be learning from literature, argues English teacher Peter Machera. I Am an English Teacher. Rubrics Are No Way to Teach ...

Explicit statements of your grading criteria can be very useful. A writing rubric that specifies the categories of assessment—and, perhaps, defines levels of success in each category—can help students ...

Similar to holistic rubrics but they break down the elements of the assignment into pieces. The benefit of this approach is that students see exactly where they are and are not succeeding with their ...

Specifically, student performance in writing essays, and essay exam questions, will be measured using the follwing standardized grading rubrics. Essays and essay questions are evaluated with an eye ...

The writing is generally confusing, awkward, or too verbose, and probably exhibits numerous mechanical problems. Its diction may be inappropriate. Grade Descriptions. The A paper makes an interesting, ...

I was inspired by an idea I got from my father, education reformer Grant Wiggins, who referenced a university professor that never gave grades on his writing rubrics but instead assigned one of ...

Here is how three seniors who are history majors say they have used the rubrics, which spell out how the professor will judge their mastery of specific skills and knowledge. To continue reading ...

Rubrics are not the path to intellectual liberation, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera writes. “It is not obvious that knowledge is closeness.” —Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams Late 1990s, Barcelona: a new ...

New findings from the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) have revealed that one-third of Year 9 students in ...

Writing is hard, but don’t overlook the difficulty — and the importance — of editing your own work before letting others see it. Here’s how. By Harry Guinness The secret to good writing is ...