Assignment ID and standards

[Luke Fernandez]

A Chronicle of Higher Education article from March 10th 2006 titled "A
New Way To Grade" might also be worth reading as you do needs
analysis.  I've excerpted part of the article below.

Cheers,

Luke

Excerpt:

"What is most radical about the system is the way it divides the labor
of the traditional teacher into that of "classroom instructor" and
"document instructor" or, in the local parlance, CI and DI.

Students meet once a week in a classroom with their classroom
instructor to go over the finer points of grammar, style, and
argumentation, and to discuss their weekly assignments, which are
standardized across all 70-odd sections of the two required first-year
composition courses. Each assignment cycle includes three drafts of an
essay, reflective "writing reviews" commenting on students' own work,
and two peer reviews of other students' work, all of which are
submitted and stored online.

Document instructors, some of whom also work as classroom instructors,
do the grading. Every piece of writing students produce is read by at
least two anonymous graders from a pool of 60 to 70 graduate part-time
instructors. The first reader reads, comments, and assigns a grade,
from one to 100, to the document. When the second reader opens the
file, he or she sees the essay, and the first DI's commentary, but not
the grade. The second grader assigns a grade, and the computer
averages the two. If the spread between the two grades is greater than
eight points, the document goes to a third grader, and the two closest
scores determine the composite grade. A student may appeal an
assignment grade to his or her classroom instructor, who may choose to
override it."






On 12/12/07, Clay Fenlason <clay.fenlason at et.gatech.edu> wrote:
> We're gearing up for some extended work on the assignments tool, and
> I'm trying to orient myself by identifying other landmarks in this
> area, either assignments in LMSes in particular, or more general
> submission-feedback workflows.  Searching is not getting me very far,
> as putting "assignment" into a list of search terms always turns up
> several hundred bits of student homework before it will get to the
> sort of interaction design hints (or open standards) I'm hoping for.
> Anyone have any favorites they might point me to?
>
> ~Clay
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