WORDS 14 GRADES Now that I am retired, I realise even more how problematic ranked grading of students' work is, even though I have been acquainted with the extensive research on this since the 1960s, which demonstrated that even in maths it was impossible to eradicate subjectivity, and that the detailing of assessment criteria for such ranking is anything but scientific despite the apparent specificity of quantitative metrics. Blind marking of the same paper by the same marker could result in an A grade one year and a Fail the next year.
WORDS 14 GRADES
WORDS 14 GRADES
WORDS 14 GRADES
WORDS 14 GRADES Now that I am retired, I realise even more how problematic ranked grading of students' work is, even though I have been acquainted with the extensive research on this since the 1960s, which demonstrated that even in maths it was impossible to eradicate subjectivity, and that the detailing of assessment criteria for such ranking is anything but scientific despite the apparent specificity of quantitative metrics. Blind marking of the same paper by the same marker could result in an A grade one year and a Fail the next year.