Research Guides: Readings & Resources about Teaching: Assignment Design

Key Articles & Websites

Measuring Transparency: A Learning‐Focused Assignment Rubric
This rubric defines criteria characteristic of well‐designed assignments; breaks the criteria down into concrete, measurable components; and suggests what evidence for each component might look like.
Fertile Ground: The Movement to Build More Effective Assignments
More effective, intentionally designed assignments can reinforce program and institutional learning outcomes, contribute to meaningful assessment, and, most important, support student success.
Transparency in Learning & Teaching (TILT) Higher Ed
The Transparency in Learning and Teaching project aims to improve higher education teaching and learning experiences for faculty and students through two main activities:
- Promoting students' conscious understanding of how they learn
- Enabling faculty to gather, share and promptly benefit from current data about students' learning by coordinating their efforts across disciplines, institutions and countries