Specifications grading with the EMRF rubric
A little over one year ago, I make a decisive break with traditional percentage-based grading systems and embraced specifications grading. I was motivated by...
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Lecturing is not bad (but…)
My course evaluations for Fall 2015 were, by and large, fine. The ratio of positive comments to negative comments about flipped learning and specifications g...
Beginning with the grade in mind
Happy New Year everybody. This post is the first one I’ve made since November 2015, but I am making an effort to get back on the wagon and write here more of...
Simplicity and complexity in grading
Traditional grading – the form of grading where student work is submitted, evaluated, that evaluation converted into a numerical score, and then the numerica...
Can an online course be truly secure?
You might remember that last summer I taught the very first fully-online course my department had ever offered, the standard Calculus 1 course but fully onli...