The first thing that you must do for writing an assignment is to start early. You should start thinking about what you are going to do right after the assignmentis assigned to you. In that way, you ...

If you’ve never taught a course online, chances are you’ve never considered how you might adjust your tests and assignments to suit the electronic medium. At most, you’ve probably shuddered at the ...

The quality of a homework assignment is important to student achievement, a Stanford scholar says. But the devil is in the details, according to Denise Pope, senior lecturer at the Stanford Graduate ...

Teachers who spend time actually thinking through assignments that align with the learning outcomes of a course are the most effective at assessing the learning that has taken place. Now, however, ...

Alexandra (AJ) Gold is a PhD Candidate in English at Boston University. Follow her on Twitter or check out her website. 230. That’s the number of undergraduate tutoring sessions I’ve had at my ...

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 ...

Teachers who spend time actually thinking through assignments that align with the learning outcomes of a course are the most effective in assessing the learning that has taken place. It's debatable ...