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 ...

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 ...

Lindsay Hamm, lecturer, in the Department of Sociology, uses writing and automated peer review as a “Swiss Army knife” to engage students and improve learning in all her courses, from a 30-person ...