Millions of high school students take Advanced Placement examinations each year. I have been grading the free-response questions on the AP Psychology exam for more than a decade. Over the years, I ...

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Nearly half a year on the job, Aspen Middle School Principal Tom Dodd discussed the benefits and challenges of the middle ...

Includes introductory sentence that includes the author, title, and main idea. Has supporting sentences that highlight key/major points that support the author's main ideas. Does not include personal ...

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 ...

I often say that I’d teach for free but need to be paid to grade. Grading is hard work. It’s not only time-consuming, but it is stressful, exhausting and at times even agonizing. All too often, ...

This rubric is based on four elements that together work for an effective paper: thesis, evidence and analysis, structure, and style: The A paper makes an interesting, complex, and important argument ...