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IN & BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
" Decisions about grading practices depend a great deal on an
instructor's values, assumptions, and educational philosophy"
pointed out in:
Erikson, Peters, and
Stommer (2006)
(as noted in Tools for Teaching,
Chapter 43)
Topic 12 - Grading and Feedback
Guest Speaker:
Kyla Macario
(Office of Instruction & Assessment - OIA)
Class topics:
- Different
philosophies and practices in grading
- Setting policies, addressing complaints
- Mechanics of grading: calculating and assigning grades
- Suggestions for designing grading rubrics
CLASS PREPARATION:
For April 20th -- prepare to follow up
on TESTING & discuss GRADING by reviewing the following:
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In Tools for Teaching,
read (or re-read) chapters 43 & 44 on Grading Practices &
Calculating and Assigning Grades
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Kyla Macario
of the OIA ( our guest presenter for this Wed April 20th) has
suggested the following additonal interesting READINGS
for Topics 11 & 12 and the online
D2L MODULE ON RUBRICS
(see below)
These readings are
posted in D2L under
CONTENT - For
Topic 11 on Testing
and
Topic 12 on Grading
For addtional reading on Topic 11 on Testing:
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Testing:
The Details
(Chapter 8 in McKeachie's Teaching
Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and
University Teachers, 12th ed 2006)
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Constructing Valid Tests to Match Your Learning
Objectives
(Chapter 19 in Thomas E. Cyrs Essential Skills for College
Teaching An Instructional Systems Approach, 3rd ed., 1995)
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Using Post-Test Analysis to Help Students See
Correlation Between Effort and Performance
(The Teaching Professor v 23, n 10 - Dec 2009)
For Topic 12 on Grading:
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Grading:
Alternative Approaches
(The Teaching Professor v 23, n 9, p 2 - Nov 2009)
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Two
Reasons Why I Still Use Rubrics (The
Teaching Professor v 24, n 4, p 2 - Apr 2010)
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Note
that we will meet in our regular classroom this Wednesday,
HARVILL 435D, (not the OIA.)
Follow up websites on Grading Rubrics:
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