Tag: grading

To help first-time faculty members start the semester strong, three professors share their best practices for creating a syllabus, grading effectively, and designing meaningful assignments.

Looking back on his early dance education, Matthew Henley, an assistant professor at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, remembers the grading process as being rather “opaque.” “Any assessments seemed to be verbal, informal and casual. Most everyone got A’s,” he says. Henley spent eight years teaching in elementary schools as a guest artist in New […]