Erica,
I'm a little hesitant to let students set the weights, as they quickly learn that tRATs yield higher scores, some of my groups get 100% all semester. What I ended up doing was setting a weight of 40% for RATS in the syllabus and after a week of class I let them determine the weights of the iRAT and the tRAT, but put a ceiling on the tRAT weight (15%). Naturally, they chose the ceiling, but at least they were able to determine it.
Cheers, Tom
Tom DeWitt Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Marketing
College of Business and Economics
University of Hawaii - Hilo
200 W. Kawili St.
Hilo, HI 96720
Phone: (808) 974-7384
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From: Erica Hunter <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 3:10
Subject: example grading rubrics?
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> Hi All,
>
> I hope someone does something like I'm trying to do. Right now,
> I use grade
> weights to do grades for my courses. They have their individual
> grade, team
> grade, and I use peer helper scores to account for participation
> on the team
> grade. However, students are often confused by "the math" of how
> this works.
>
> I want to do a point based system, where they can add their
> points up. Sure,
> it will be a little funky with the peer help score, but I can
> work this in.
> Where I am unsure is in the letting them set the weights - I'm
> not sure how
> to put this on the syllabus AND let them pick the weights. Maybe
> give them
> the points afterwards? There seems like there *should* be an
> easier way to
> do this.
>
> If anyone does this and would like to share their syllabus or
> grading system
> with me, that would be awesome.
>
> Thanks,
> Erica
> University at Albany
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