Grading

Grading

  • The goal of alternative grading is to apply assessmentmethods that separate feedback from the final grade of thecourse. In the United States, traditional grading is frequentlybased on a weighted average of points earned throughout thecourse to arrive at a formulaic final grade that is indifferent tothe actual learning attained by each student. Most alternativegrading systems do not assign grades based on these traditionalpercentage or points-based scales. 

  • After successfully switching to specifications grading in BIOE415, I shared my process of how I transitioned to specifications grading in a paper presented at the IEEE Frontiers in Education conference in 2022. The full paper can be found on IEEEXplore.