[Informatics] Back to basics - The theory of grading

[Robert Hind]

Ah! The good old days when we still taught saber-tooth tiger hunting as a
vital skill for our young.
 
Robert Hind
Ex Traralgon and Ashwood
Retired
 
 

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[mailto:informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark
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To: Year 12 VCE Informatics Teachers' Mailing List; Year 12 Software
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Subject: [Informatics] Back to basics - The theory of grading


Hi red-penners* 

Apologies for the crosspost, but you're all teachers and you all have to
evaluate students one way or another. 

This may be useful for newbie chalkies**. It quickly covers the different
classical assessment paradigms.

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/think-know-grades-heres-really-work/

Note - It does not cover the famous 'Stair Assessment Technique' (SAT)
whereby a teacher stands atop a staircase and throws the students' outcomes
into the air. 
First-step landings are an 'A'. Outcomes landing on the second step are a
'B'. etc.
(This evaluation methodology is rarely covered in Dip.Ed. courses any more.
Sigh.)

Mark


* Are teachers still allowed to mark students' work in red pen, or is that
now considered 'hostile'?

** Chalk? Well, young one, sit down and I tell you a story of the old days
where there were these things called 'blackboards' (hehehe, yeah, not
whiteboards!) and...


True story: when I was in grade 3 or so I told my mother that the blackboard
at school looked green. She took me to an eye doctor. It turned out
blackboards were black in her day. In mine they were greenish. Now they're
white. For heaven's sake, people. When will this nonsense ever end? Why
can't we go back to the good old times when we used red ochre on cave walls
for hunting lessons?

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Mark Kelly


mark at vceit.com

http://vceit.com

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