Tag: specification grading
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Timely Teaching Tips: Weeks 7 and 8 – All about grading practices
By Emma Larkins, OSU Center for Teaching and Learning A feedback/assessment tool and alternative grading frameworks It is potentially beneficial to reflect on the relationship between learning and learning assessment, to explore improvement of grading practices and feedback, and to consider how tools can make grading both more efficient and more consistent. Suggested resources: About…
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Alternative grading: A framework for emphasizing learning and de-emphasizing grades
By Funmi Amobi, OSU Center for Teaching and Learning What does an A, B, C, or D really mean in terms of student learning? Grades are overly emphasized in the assessment of student learning. Instructors give agonizing attention to decisions about how many points or how much partial credit to allocate to students’ work. Students…
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Grading: Same as it Ever Was? There’s No Better Time than NOW, to Change
At the start of the pandemic, now over a year ago, it struck me that the words of the Talking Heads classic, Once in a Lifetime fit the situation well with a few tweaks (And you may find yourself, With online finals, With online meetings, And you may ask yourself, well, How did I get…