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BlindGradingOrEqualGrading 24 - 02 Apr 2009 - Main.MolissaFarber
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| | Given that this will come up in Thursday's class, let's start the discussion.
I was not at all uncomfortable with being graded blindly in any of my classes last semester. However, after hearing Eben discuss the grading possibilities for our third writing assignment in class today, I found myself prickling at the idea of being graded "with a bag over my head." This prospect is particularly prickly since we happen to have a professor who seems to be investing a great deal of effort in individualizing the learning process. In the class following Theo's HowToFixHealthcare post, Eben explained that his responses to Theo were engineered to best help Theo learn and develop his piece. The discomfort for some of the rest of us had come from the fact that we learn and are motivated differently, but could still see Eben's comments. I was struck by this explanation because not only did it make sense, but it seemed to be effective. Having gotten to know Theo a bit over the poker table, I suspected it was true that he would step up his game if challenged in the way that Eben challenged him. Given his re-write of the topic, it seems that he did just that. | | | I think the analysis still holds true from the above: with anonymity, we have less stress, but less opportunity for learning, thinking, and/or demonstrating the three pillars of this class. With the other option, we actually have to work (and stress and edit), but we will have something to learn from/show for it, along with demonstrating our growth and development over the semester. I believe these are the general arguments Molissa is looking for.
-- AlexHu - 02 Apr 2009 | |
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> | Confession: I am making a post during class (ironically, while we discussed Ritalin).
Explanation: I wanted to write this down before all of us, with our short and degraded memories, forget Eben's explanation.
We WILL have a third assignment. The question is about how to evaluate/grade the third assignment. There is a rule that all electives base the majority of the grade (over 50%) on an anonymously-graded assignment. We can chose to do away with this rule entirely and submit a third assignment that will be graded with our names attached, we can choose to violate the spirit of the rule but not the letter, or we can chose to follow the rule to a T. The decision process will happen in two stages.
Stage One:
We vote on whether to do away with the rule altogether. This process will happen by email to Eben within the next 24 hours. If you want to get rid of the rule, you don't have to email. If you want to veto the rule, you DO have to email. Your votes will be anonymous. Complete abandonment of the rule must be 100% unanimous.
If we abandon the rule, our third assignment will be graded as our others have been - with our names attached, and with individualized feedback based on who we are.
Stage Two:
If there is a veto of the rule abandonment, then we will vote on how we want to follow the rule. We can either:
- Follow the letter of the rule but not the spirit by having our third assignment graded anonymously, but agreeing that Eben will give us all the same grade. The third assignment will thus fall out of our final grades because we all got the same thing, and our actual "grade" will be based on our individualized assignments.
- Follow the letter of the rule by having our third assignment graded anonymously, with all of us getting different grades.
This second vote will be a majority-rules vote.
-- MolissaFarber - 02 Apr 2009 | | | |
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