Involving students in assignment evaluation

Assignment completion procedures that are based on sound instructional principles are im-portant and necessary in order to enhance learn-ing for diverse learners. The first part of this article explains the connection between plan-ning, presenting, and evaluating assignments for students who demonstrate ineffective assign-ment completion strategies. The second part of-fers specific guidelines for how to teach students to check their own finished assignments accord-ing to a set of quality work criteria. ew topics in education are more controversial than ~ grading, reporting, and communicating students’ learning. According to Guskey (1996), there are three premises on which to base our conversatio