Joe, Thank you for you great input to this forum. You are right on with your comments. Students are people and treating them as such helps develop the respect needed to build an effective learning environment. Developing learning outcomes and communicating the outcomes is certainly necessary. With the feedback you provide to students many times comes the motivation. Feedback should be meaningful and help the students improve. The rubrics provide guidelines for both the students and teachers. They are a must. I like the way you think! ;-) Thanks again.