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Four Questions in Grading System

This document summarizes four questions about grading systems posed by Marinila D. Svinicki of the University of Texas at Austin. The four questions are: 1) Should grades reflect absolute achievement levels or relative achievement compared to peers? 2) Should grades reflect only academic achievements or include non-academic factors? 3) Should grades report achieved status or amount of growth? 4) How can multiple grades on diverse skills combine into a single grade? The document then provides more details on each question, discussing issues like norm-referenced vs. criterion-referenced grading and challenges with incorporating factors like effort, attitude and timeliness into grades.

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Four Questions in Grading System

This document summarizes four questions about grading systems posed by Marinila D. Svinicki of the University of Texas at Austin. The four questions are: 1) Should grades reflect absolute achievement levels or relative achievement compared to peers? 2) Should grades reflect only academic achievements or include non-academic factors? 3) Should grades report achieved status or amount of growth? 4) How can multiple grades on diverse skills combine into a single grade? The document then provides more details on each question, discussing issues like norm-referenced vs. criterion-referenced grading and challenges with incorporating factors like effort, attitude and timeliness into grades.

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FOUR QUESTIONS

IN GRADING
SYSTEM
P R E PA R E D BY:
ERIKA CASIMERO
BSED 4B
Marinila D. Svinicki (2007) of the
Center For Teaching Effectiveness of
the University of Texas at Austin
poses four intriguing questions
relative to grading
FOUR QUESTIONS IN GRADING
SYSTEM
1. SHOULD GRADES REFLECT ABSOLUTE ACHIEVEMENTS LEVEL OR
ACHIEVEMENT RELATIVE TO OTHERS IN THE SAME CLASS?
2. SHOULD GRADES REFLECT ACHIEVEMENTS ONLY OR NONACADEMIC
COMPONENTS SUCH AS ATTITUDE, SPEED AND DILIGENCE?
3. SHOULD GRADES REPORT STATUS ACHIEVED OR AMOUNT OF
GROWTH?
4. HOW CAN SEVERAL GRADES ON DIVERSE SKILLS COMBINE TO GIVE A
SINGLE MARK?
SHOULD GRADES REFLECT ABSOLUTE ACHIEVEMENTS LEVEL OR
ACHIEVEMENT RELATIVE TO OTHERS IN THE SAME CLASS?
NORM-REFERENCED VS CRITERION REFERENCED

NORM-REFERENCED GRADING CRITERION-REFERENCED GRADING


• The grade is being measured by •The letter grade received by the
the students actual performance. students is based on her standing
at class.
•Evaluator knows only that the
students reach a certain level or •Evaluator has a little additional
set of objectives. informance about what student
actually knows.
SHOULD GRADES REFLECT ACHIEVEMENTS ONLY OR
NONACADEMIC COMPONENTS SUCH AS ATTITUDE, SPEED AND
DILIGENCE?

It is very common practice to incorporate such


things as turning in assignments on time in to
overall grade in the course, primarily because the
need to motivate students to get their work done is
a real problem for instructors.
Possible problem of the Instructor
•It makes grades even more ambiguous than they
already are.
•It is very difficult to assess these nebulous traits
accurately and consistently.
•Instructor should used real caution when
corporating such value judgement into final grade
assignment
SHOULD GRADES REPORT STATUS ACHIEVED OR
AMOUNT OF GROWTH?
In many beginning classes, the background of the
students varied that some students can achieved the
end objectives with little or no trouble while others
with weak background will work twice as a hard and
still achieved only half as much.
HOW CAN SEVERAL GRADES ON DIVERSE SKILLS
COMBINE TO GIVE A SINGLE MARK?
The basic answers is that they cant really.
"Rube Goldberg" as far as indicating what a student àchieved.
It would complicated an already complicated task.
The halo effect of good performance in one area could spill over
into others.
And finally, most outsider are looking for only one overall
classificationof each person so that they can choose the best
THANK YOU!

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