Excel™Based Graphical Tools for Comparing Grades across Multiple Lab or Tutorial Sections

 

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2013, Volume 34

Gillian Gass & Liane Chen

Abstract

Instructors often face the challenge of maintaining grading consistency in large classes with multiple teaching assistants (TAs) and lab and/or tutorial sections. Students quite reasonably expect that assignments are graded to similar standards no matter what section they find themselves in; teaching assistants sometimes feel uncertain about whether their grading matches their colleagues' and wonder how much variation is reasonable; and, critically, instructors of large classes can sometimes lack a good way of surveying the class as a whole, and may instead find themselves making judgements based on incomplete data in response to student concerns.

Keywords:  teaching assistants, grading

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2012)