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"Where essays are required, especially in the humanities and social sciences, the system relies on the students themselves to grade their fellow students’ work,
by pitt1980 15y ago
"Where essays are required, especially in the humanities and social sciences, the system relies on the students themselves to grade their fellow students’ work, in effect turning them into teaching assistants. Dr. Koller said that this would actually improve the learning experience."
wonder how that would work
- evoxed 15y agoThis will be especially interesting considering how many of the people taking advantage of these courses are outside of the US and primarily-English speaking countries. Check the box if English is your second language? We'll see how the crowdsourced evaluation model goes, but then maybe they've got some tricks up their sleeves to rescue it from [potential] disaster. Edit: The first thing I can think of is an advanced rubric that would allow almost anyone to break down an essay and feed the results into their own grading algorithm. A sizable group of writing teachers are clenching their teeth...
- signa11 15y ago> wonder how that would work one possibility might be to have multiple students grade a students work, and final score then weighted by the 'judging-student's' score on the same topic ?
- pitt1980 15y agoyeah, wonder if you could do something like, here's 3 essays, rank them from best to worst fancy algorythm fit all the essays onto some sort of generous curve grade seems like essay a > than essay b > than essay c would get you better results than having each grader come up with a number from 1 - 100 or a letter from A to F, as everyone has different norms as to what they think should count as a 90 (or an A) or whatever