I think I'm "accidentally" or "subliminally" teaching students critical thinking by giving them a few things to digest with each paper or project. There's a rubric and a handout with instructions and then usually a few student samples. If they don't look at them before handing in the paper, they may miss things. Oddly, when they miss these things, they accuse me of not telling them everything five times - like once at the beginning, 3 times in the middle, and one more time at the end. What I have to get across to them, when they freak out about something they should've caught (or asked me about), is that it's ALL there - they have to read it & remind themselves of the rubric, etc. I don't expect them to memorize much; that's why we have a syllabus and an LMS. It's ALL there, you know? I don't hide my assessment strategies.
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