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 ----- Original Message ----- From: Erica Hunter <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 3:10 Subject: example grading rubrics? To: [log in to unmask] > 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