blerner
commented
4 years ago This is a good idea, but doesn't go far enough. We need to be careful about consistency in manual grading also, as well as quiz/question grading. Coming up with a better workflow for these sorts of issues is a medium-high priority, but will require a fairly large redesign...
The Problem
When grading quizzes, graders are often presented with preset options like:
However, most of the time the grader will assign a different amount of points than is defined in the preset list, in addition to adding more specific feedback.
A common trend that I've noticed, though, is that many of the mistakes that students make are very similar, if not identical. This leads to me opening the old quizzes I've graded in order to ensure that I'm deducting points and providing feedback consistently.
The Proposal
When the grader selects a quiz question to grade, Bottlenose could display a sidebar containing previously assigned feedback for that question, represented by a pair containing the points earned and the feedback given.
This would allow all graders to see all other feedback given for the selected question. If a grader believes that the description and points match the specific student answer they're grading, they could simply click that pair in the sidebar and have it populate in the quiz they're grading.
Extra credit if the sidebar is searchable.
Benefits
Grading is now more consistent both across different graders and even with individual graders.
Grading is now more efficient, as graders can simply choose from a larger list of presets once that list has been built up.
Feedback on questions will likely improve, as graders will not become burnt out from typing the same thing on many quiz questions.
Points deducted for a particular mistake could be adjusted after the fact. This is honestly one of the more exciting benefits that I see. This would be additional work, but this is a big win that services like Gradescope provide.