I have a short update today. Enjoy the relief from my usual cavalcade of verbiage
Thanks to our Chief Academic Officer, I just saw the article College-Wide Grading Standards on the Foundation for Critical Thinking website. The article described almost exactly what I was planning to post for part 2 of my series on assigning grades. Instead of posting part 2 of my series, I will modify my entry to incorporate this excellent resource.
The article provides the qualitative descriptions of grades A through F, so my current plan is to discuss the differences in each grade category. I hope to report on my results of developing an operational grading strategy based on these standards.
In other news, I've decided that my Linear Algebra course next semester will include a requirement that students create a blog of their learning progress in lieu of turning in homework problems. I will still provide homework problems for the students to work on, but they will blog their progress instead of turn their solutions in for a grade.
All that and much more is forthcoming, so don't touch that dial.
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