text: , students received a better grade, on average, on teacher designed work than an autonomous student designed projects. The article summarized a study that showed that students better grades of assignments that required them to reach a certain criteria than assignments that gave the full autonomy on the assignment. It can be predicted that this was the case because it is easier to grade for the teachers and create a project for the students when they know exactly what the teacher wants and expects. When teachers set a criteria for summer assignments, they can control quality and quantity of the information that the students soak in.