Teaching in Higher Ed

Specifications Grading

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There’s something wrong with the way we’re grading that isn’t being talked about nearly enough.

On today’s show, Dr. Linda Nilson shares about a whole new way of thinking about assessing students’ work and making grades mean more.

Podcast Notes

Dr. Linda B. Nilson

Director of the Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation at Clemson University

  • Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors
  • The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map: Communicating Your Course
  • Creating Self-Regulated Learners: Strategies to Strengthen Students’ Self-Awareness and Learning Skills
  • Specifications Grading: Restoring rigor, motivating students, and saving faculty time
    • Specifications grading

    Advocating a new way of grading from University of Pittsburgh University Times

    The problem with “traditional” grading

    Academic and Occupational Performance: A Quantitative Synthesis (Samson, Graue, Weinstein & Walberg)

    .155 correlation meta analysis done by Sampson

    2.4% of the variance in career success

    2006 study by the American Institutes for Research

    Fewer than 1/2 of four year college graduates
    Fewer than 3/4 of two year college graduates
    Demonstrate literary proficiency

    Explanation of specifications grading

    Bundles

    Virtual tokens

    Robert Talbert blog

    Casting out nines

    How specifications grading came to be

    Benefits

    Concerns

    Recommendations

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