Learn about rubrics and how they can help clarify your expectations around assessments and streamline the grading process while supporting students’ learning. Your assessment criteria, standards and ...

Norming (also called calibration) is the process in which a group of raters decide collectively how to use a rubric to evaluate student work in a consistent manner. Raters are usually faculty and ...

Incorporating peer review and individual reflections makes frequent, intentional formative assessment manageable, with big ...

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 ...

Michigan Tech no longer has university-wide learning goals. Launching in Fall 2025, the Essential Ed program will replace the general education curriculum used by Michigan Tech undergraduates since ...

Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...

A rubric is an assessment tool that takes the form of a matrix, which describes levels of achievement in a specific area of performance, understanding, or behavior for a learning outcome. Faculty ...

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z Achievement target: Desired level of performance. Often used ...

Authentic assessment is a type of assessment in which students are asked to perform real-world tasks that demonstrate meaningful application of knowledge and skills. Below are some examples of ...

This post is by Tony Siddall, the K-12 Program Officer at Next Generation Learning Challenges. What is assessment, really? Having worked in and with schools for more than fifteen years, I thought I ...

*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 ...

Rubrics are tools used when assessing and grading students’ work. Rubrics indicate the performance or achievement criteria across the major components in student work. The criteria used in a grading ...