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Grading Efficiently: Finding the Time to Grade Fairly
Killian Quigley John Martin
Vanderbilt Center for Teaching GradSTEPJanuary 26, 2013
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Challenges
The “What” and “Why” of Grading
Time Management
Rubrics
“Subjective” Grading (?)
STEM Disciplines
Group Work and Projects
Discussion/Brainstorming
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Why Talk About Grading?
Why Are We Here?
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Let’s take a step back….
Why do we grade in the first place?
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Goal #1: Accuracy
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Goal #2: Consistency
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Goal #3: Student Learning
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Time Management
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grading≠
procrastination
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grading=
deliberate act
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Establish priorities
Befriend the clock
Schedule
Set boundaries
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Establish a Space and a Ritual for Grading
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reflect on how things go!
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Using Rubrics
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Kinds of Rubrics• Rubrics given to students with your
expectations for how they complete their assignments– Stylistic, less detailed
• Rubrics for yourself on how you grade these assignments – “Answer keys”
• Using both these will save you time and effort!
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Why do we use grading rubrics?
1) Keeps grading fair and consistent2) Directly aligns grades with learning goals3) Saving time – less thinking in giving
credit
Grading rubrics are applicable to all disciplines!
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Grading Outside the Rubric
• Assignments without a set rubric or unexpected student responses
• One way to deal with these situations: real-time rubric making
• Record your grading as you go – apply the same standards to all students
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Killian’s section on humanities assignments
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Rubric
• Clarification, consistency• Reference
Other
voices
• Handbooks• VWS, CFT, Online Pedagogy Guides
Trial
• Examples• Drafts and partial assignments
Face time
• Peer review• Conferences and office hours
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Technologies
• Speed
• Clarity
• Archive-building
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Myth:
“Students’ writing will improve in direct proportion to the amount of time their teachers spend on their papers.”
(Hairston 2002)
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Instead:
“…all the drudgery and sacrifice on the part of writing teachers might be justified if it helped students to learn to write; unfortunately, we have no evidence that it does.”
(Hairston 2002)
Maxine Hairston
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• Don’t grade “with error at the front of our minds”
• Never assess an assignment without having first read/watched it once.
• What is the student attempting to do?
• How can we tailor our feedback to help our students achieve their unique goals?
• Note the things a student has done well, and suggest a small number of major changes.
• Avoid creating “cognitive overload”(Hairston 2002)
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• Specific comments
• Students will not take heed of generalities, like “Pay attention to your reader”
(Nancy Sommers 1999)
• Solving problems, not discussing broad conceptual issues.
• Focus on only a few things.
• Suggest concrete strategies for improvement – reverse outlines, concept maps, etc.
(Mark Gelly 2002)
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STEM Discipline Assignments
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Problem Sets & Short Answer Responses
• Pros:– Systematic problems = systematic answers– Usually come with well laid-out grading rubrics
and answer keys– Broken up into digestible segments
• Cons– Backtracking to find mistakes
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How to Handle Problem Sets & Short Answer
• Grade horizontally– Easier to pick out trends in answers
• Real-time rubric – Record what you take off/give points for so you
can apply across the board• Broadly respond to common errors• Use “minimal marking” while grading for common errors• Emphasize point in teaching exercise or send an email to
the class to explain
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Lab Reports• Pros:– Usually have big emphasis
on stylistic elements – easy to spot
– Established rubric by professor overseeing lab
– Lots of other graders
• Cons:– Can be dense– Lots of other graders– Factoring in-class effort and
performance
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Handling Lab Reports
• Make sure students know format before making their first report
• Draw from past TA’s experiences in grading and doing the actual labs
• Skim reports before grading horizontally– Reports are segmented but flow is also important
• Don’t waste time fixing every stylistic mistake, send out message to the entire class about persistent issues
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Group Work/Projects
• Pros:– Multiple people working
= less gradable stuff– Teaches alternative
lessons outside normal curriculum
• Cons:– Grading multiple people
for one assignment
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Handling Group Work/Projects
• Accentuate main group assignment/project with individual assignments
• Make individual members responsible for drafts of sections
• Give feedback chances for group members• Grin and bear it....
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Why are you here? What is your experience?
What else might we discuss?
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