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A teacher friend of mine always goes through his stack twice. Once to correct all mistakes and a second time to write down points. As you said, once you have se
by V__ 2y ago
A teacher friend of mine always goes through his stack twice. Once to correct all mistakes and a second time to write down points. As you said, once you have seen all mistakes you know how "bad" of a mistake it actually is.
- smogcutter 2y ago> As you said, once you have seen all mistakes you know how "bad" of a mistake it actually is. Crucially, this is not quite what the poster said. It’s not about stack ranking students against each other. Say every paper makes the same subtle mistake, and you only notice it halfway through the pile. Unless you go back through them all, you’ll unfairly grade the later entries more harshly.
- Zancarius 2y ago> It’s not about stack ranking students against each other. It's not, but it sort of has that effect, albeit indirectly, and definitely unfairly.
- smogcutter 2y agoI think we’re talking about the same thing, but to clarify my meaning: If you weigh the severity of students mistakes (or successes for that matter) in relation to each other rather than to an objective rubric, you’re effectively stack ranking them whether you mean to or not.
- kkylin 2y agoI'm not a big fan of putting everything in the cloud, but one of the advantages of online grading systems is that it is easier to make this kind of adjustment. The workflow goes like this: make a rubric item for a specific kind of mistake (it takes a little experience to know which mistakes are likely one-off and which ones are likely to be repeated by other students), assign X points, and later if you decide there are worse mistakes, adjust the points and that gets applied to everyone.