Establish and execute grading tools and approaches that suit your needs and those of your students.
Reading Time: 2 minutesGrade inflation is a well-known phenomenon. Check out some thoughts and data from Harvard in Grade Inflation: What Goes Up Must Come Down. We must ensure that students receive grades that discriminate, in the best sense of the word, the degree to which they have attained the course outcomes. In a general sense, the course learning outcomes measure the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that the student has attained by a certain point in the course or cumulatively at the end of a course. Using the Grading Procedure to ensure rigour and consistency Conestoga’s Grading Procedure is designed to...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteView this video introduction to the learning path to better understand how to access and grade assessments in eConestoga. Additional Resources After you’ve viewed this video, you may also want to take a look at some of the Hub posts referenced. For additional support, access eConestoga’s regular weekday drop-in sessions. Below are the faculty learning hub posts referenced throughout this...
Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Joel Beaupre and Jesslyn Wilkinson Try some of these strategies to effectively create and share feedback online. Many of these strategies can be used for peer feedback activities as well. Summative Feedback Using Quick Eval in eConestoga Use highlighters, markers, inline comments and text, or other features to add feedback directly to a submission in eConestoga. You can also...
Reading Time: 3 minutesChecklist and Statements for Ensuring Academic Integrity (AI) in Submissions Statements around academic integrity share clear expectations with students. You can use the points below as a checklist for describing and sharing expectations with your students. You may also wish to choose a few statements that apply most specifically to your assignments and add them to your assignment description or...
Reading Time: 5 minutesDuring challenging times, how should we proceed with grading in order to balance academic rigour and fairness with care and understanding for our students? This teaching tip helps you to manage a number of marking dilemmas you may experience.
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