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

After the School Board in February approved the reduction of 13.5 full-time equivalent staff members , board members have dug deeper into the reduction-in-force ...

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 ...

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 ...

A rubric is an evaluation tool that identifies criteria relevant to an assignment and describes levels of performance expectations for the assignment or other student work. Grading rubrics communicate ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin City Council will vote on creating a scoring tool that could guide how the city decides funding cuts to social service contracts, as the city said they are projected to face ...