Long ago I had the brilliant idea of asking students to grade themselves on their own class participation which was a syllabus defined percentage of their grade. I found their estimates to be close to what I would have given them. They seemed to be quite honest and few went for the easy A. However, on course evaluations, they hated it. They thought I had abdicated my responsibility to give them feedback on that aspect of their performance.
Another aspect of this "crowdsourcing" is the federal secrecy of student records act that does not allow for students or anyone else to know the grades of other students. If other students are publically determining grades for identified students in the class, it might be in violation of FERPA. Bill Scott >>> Sally Walters <swalt...@dccnet.com> 05/03/10 5:14 PM >>> Tired of marking? Turn it over to the students - use "crowdsourcing": http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/05/03/grading#Comments Sally Walters Capilano University North Vancouver, BC --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: wsc...@wooster.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13058.902daf6855267276c83a639cbb25165c&n=T&l=tips&o=2420 or send a blank email to leave-2420-13058.902daf6855267276c83a639cbb251...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=2422 or send a blank email to leave-2422-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
