Assignments: Make Them Effective, Engaging, and Equitable. At their best, assignments are one of the most important learning experiences for students in a course. Students grapple with course content, ...

Many instructors approach assignment design with a "product" focus—that is to say, the choices they make about their assignments (frequency; genre; difficulty; grading scheme; etc.) are oriented ...

In education–and particularly with my graduate students in higher education–students occasionally focus on the individual points of an assignment rubric instead of stepping back and looking ...

Travis Grandy is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Find him on Twitter @travisgrandy or at his website. I work with a lot of instructors who use ...

In February Howe Writing Across the Curriculum partnered with Howe Writing Center consultants to present a workshop series on Assignment Design, focusing on clarity, audience, and accessibility. Led ...

Dr. Ann Marie VanDerZanden is preparing students in her horticulture classes for challenging careers by boosting their critical thinking capacity. "Horticulture graduates entering the field of ...

Providing clear explicit assignment expectations helps all students be more successful. It also helps you as an instructor get clear on what you’re looking for on key assignments so you can better ...

Incorporate answers to the following in the assignment sheet and during class discussions. By contextualizing the assignment and clarifying the criteria, you will give students a better opportunity to ...

Dalhousie’s Academic Integrity Working Group has identified two core considerations to diminish student cheating. Designing courses (and assignments) that reduce pressures and other situations that ...