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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815842903321

Autore

Nilson Linda Burzotta

Titolo

Specifications grading : restoring rigor, motivating students, and saving faculty time / / Linda B. Nilson ; foreword by Claudia J. Stanny

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sterling, Virginia : , : Stylus, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-00-344706-6

1-000-97504-5

1-003-44706-6

1-62036-243-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 p.)

Disciplina

378.16620973

Soggetti

Education, Higher - Standards - United States

Grading and marking (Students) - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

SPECIFICATIONS GRADING Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty Time; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 THE NEED FOR A NEW GRADING SYSTEM; 2 LEARNING OUTCOMES AND COURSE DESIGN; 3 LINKING GRADES TO OUTCOMES; 4 PASS/FAIL GRADING FOR RIGOR, MOTIVATION, AND FACULTY PEACE OF MIND; 5 ESSENTIALS OF S PECIFICATIONS GRADING; 6 CONVERTING S PECS-GRADED STUDENT WORK INTO FINAL LETTER GRADES; 7 EXAMPLES OF SPECS-GRADED  COURSE DESIGNS; 8 THE MOTIVATIONAL POWER OF SPECS GRADING; 9 DEVELOPING A COURSE WITH SPECS GRADING; 10 AN EVALUATION OF SPECS GRADING

REFERENCESABOUT THE AUTHOR; INDEX; Also by Linda B. Nilson