Monday, April 04, 2005

How Dr. Ron grades

I am trying harder these days to leave my students with no doubt about how I grade their work. I have written before about grading blogs, but I have to consider other works, in particular the business plans they are required to write in small groups. The TCNJ Writing Program has a grading rubric that each of us more-or-less works with, but it has two problems from my point of view:
  1. It's too long.
  2. It doesn't say anything about how much weight is given to what area of writing.
So I have taken the liberty of shortening this thing, and assigning weights. Here's the result:

Aspect% WeightGrades
ABCD
Claim: compelling, specific, debatable15excellentgoodfairpoor
Logic: developed, organized15excellentgoodfairpoor
Audience: considered15excellentgoodfairpoor
Evidence: reliable, persuasive15excellentgoodfairpoor
Citations: correctly cited and sufficient in number15excellentgoodfairpoor
Grammar15excellentgoodfairpoor
Word Choice10excellentgoodfairpoor

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