Grading Structure Terms
Knowing the vocabulary is the best way to retain the course content
Structure Terms assignments evaluate a student’s ability to not only define a particular term, but to go beyond the definition by explaining its potential relationships with other vocabulary terms; seeing and making these connections is both a critical skill for historical thinking and a valuable tool for remembering all the key course content
What to Look For When Grading
- Structure terms rubric
- Accuracy: Can the student define the terms?
- Relationships: Can the student articulate meaningful connections (cause/effect, similarity/difference, category grouping, etc.)?
- Organization: Are categories or relationships clearly explained?
- Completeness: Did they answer all prompts?
Where to Find Submissions
- There is no digital place for submitting structure terms assignments
- Since structure terms can be submitted in a variety of ways—from digital files, to corkboards, to Lego bricks, to other physical constructions—users should decide on internal classroom or home submission requirements and then use the manual grading tutorial to give each submission a grade
- To help you visualize ways these can be done, you can view a variety of past student submissions here