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Effective Grading. Babson Faculty Workshop August 23, 2012. “I love to teach, but get paid to grade.” Anon. Resources:. Walvoord and Anderson, Effective Grading , 2 nd ed. Jossey -Bass 2010
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Effective Grading Babson Faculty Workshop August 23, 2012 “I love to teach, but get paid to grade.” Anon.
Resources: • Walvoord and Anderson, Effective Grading, 2nd ed. Jossey-Bass 2010 • Bean and Peterson, Grading Class Participation, 74 New Directions for Teaching and Learning 33,(1998) • Croxall, How to Grade Students’ Class Participation, ProfHacker, 5/5/10. • Maznevski, Grading Class Participation, http://trc.virginia.edu/Publications/Teaching_Concerns/Spring_1996/TC_Spring_1996_Maznevski.htm
The Assignment-Centered Course • What do I want my students to be able to do at the end of the course? • How do I construct assignments that get students from the start to the finish? • What’s my assignment skeleton? How does it build the skills to get students where I want them to go? • Is the assignment skeleton sustainable for them and for me?
Grading Criteria • Descriptions: what’s the difference between an A, a B, a C? • Disclosures • The Checklist • Grading Rubrics • Constructing the rubric • What counts? • A simple scale • Communicating to students
Grading Efficiently • Conducting your grading audit • Grading vs. editing • The sample edit • Minding the fundamentals • Comments as teachable moments? Will students read them? • Drafts vs. finals
Criticisms of Class Participation • Subjectivity • Cultural insensitivity • Quantity over quality • More?
Effective Class Participation Grading • Purpose? What am I trying to accomplish with this kind of assessment? • Definition? What constitutes participation? • Fit and Fairness? • Rubric? • Feedback and Coaching? Are there opportunities for students to refine and improve? • Student involvement? • Reflection? Crowdsourcing?