Creating High-Quality Classroom Assignments

This resource for teachers presents a series of rubrics that serve as diagnostic tools to assess the strengths and weaknesses of classroom assignments and guide the creation of new ones. The text specifically focuses on student responses to literature assignments, though many of the principles are applicable to other content areas. Matsumura is a research associate at the U. of Pittsburgh who specializes in the assessment of instructional quality. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Lindsay Clare Matsumura is a research associate at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on assessing instructional quality and tracing the influence of reform policies on classroom practice.