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

Back when Wendi O’Halloran was an elementary school teacher in Rapides Parish, she received feedback after a classroom observation that improved her practice and showed her the power of teacher ...

Business: Xperi is a technology company that develops software solutions and has the following four main business segments. First, there's pay-TV, which provides backend software for internet-enabled ...

*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 ...

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 ...

The Quality Matters course review process is an iterative, collegial process of faculty-to-faculty driven continuous improvement. Faculty members review each others' online courses and work together ...

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 ...