Some history professors at Utah State have mapped out learning objectives, creating a detailed scoring guide for student papers. Here is how three seniors who are history majors say they have used the rubrics, which spell out how the professor will judge their mastery of specific skills and knowledge.
Aurora Wallis Durfee
In a course about the United States in the Age of Jefferson and Jackson, Ms. Durfee says she frequently referred to the scoring guide’s prompts about how to demonstrate “excellent mastery” of historical-thinking skills as she wrote a paper about Alexis de Tocqueville. They say, for instance, that a paper should focus on critical analysis rather than mere description and that the student’s response to historical questions should be conceptually strong, logically formulated, and precisely stated.
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