Grading Exams

Posted on December 20, 2006 by | 4 Comments

I did not have time to go through all the posts on all of today’s carnivals, but Larry Moran discovered a real gem on today’s Carnival of Education. Check the comments as well. Then come up with your own system.

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4 responses to “Grading Exams”

  1. Matt's avatar Matt | December 21, 2006 at 2:08 am |

    How could I possibly come up with a better system than that.. Absolutly amazing. I’m a convert!

  2. csrster's avatar csrster | December 21, 2006 at 7:05 am |

    You do know the classic “first-sorting” strategy for job application? You start by selecting 50% of the applications at random and bin them. Those are the unlucky ones, and you don’t want to employ unlucky people, do you?

  3. Mondo's avatar Mondo | December 21, 2006 at 7:44 am |

    “Those are the unlucky ones, and you don’t want to employ unlucky people, do you?”
    Of course this assumes that you are not the unlucky one and tossing out the good candidates.
    🙂

  4. Tom's avatar Tom | December 21, 2006 at 8:10 pm |

    The best real grading system I ever encountered is the half-wit scale. The top scorer has all the wits and defines an A+. Half that score is a half-wit and defines an F. Percentiles rank the rest.