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"course-level" assessments. For both types of assessments, "student" is an
anonymous assessment and it's the same for all students in a class. All
students are assessed at the same time in a single assessment session. All
attempted assessments that are marked as wrong are reviewed and corrected by
an instructor. Students can attempt multiple assessments, but it is rare for
students to attempt more than one or two "curriculum-level" assessments (these
could be one or two final exams and a final project). And students are
required to do their homework for each assessment. There are two levels of marking and corrections- Curriculum-level marking Course-level marking
In the early years of an online class, we only use curriculum-level markin and when a correction comes from an instructor, it is also curriculum-level.
Over time, we have started to use course-level marking (so that the grade for
the course reflects the grade that all students receive).So, in short, each individual student can be an assessed (with multiple
attempts), which affects their score (and the final score of the class). pc This seems like a pretty good system - can't really think of any obvious
flaws. jeffool The title is misleading, and could be a huge red flag for students. Why not
let "you pass" be the title? carlos As a student, the title is misleading to me. The title implies you will have a
grade based on your performance (it has "score" in it). My first thought was
"If I score a 3 I will pass? That's weird." It took a while before I read
anything on the page and understood it was referring to the system. jeffool Then just change it to "You passed There's a lot of ambiguity in titles, so I think it is a pretty poor choice
for a site about grades. Maybe "Passed with a grade of 70." or some such.bradendoo
I'm skeptical about this type of grading. I feel like you will inevitably end
up with students whose grades get too high/too low based on their results jkush
You are mistaken. There are many methods of grading that don't suffer from
this problem. The problem arises when you have a zero (or even negative)
weighting for the grade. bradendoo
There are certainly methods of grading which will never produce that
distortion. You can use the class as a whole to produce a general
"competency" score. A student who gets a A in class that scores a C on an
assignment will have the same grade as a student who gets a B in class and an
A on an assignment. These students will then be placed in a separate cohort. So your method has a built in mechanism to weed out students who have not
learned or achieved much. And it doesn't suffer from the problems of a zero
weighting. If you are going to provide an automated algorithm for generating a
transcript, you'd be better off doing it with a full grade rather than using
some fuzzy calculation that I
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