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Incremental Grading in Practice: First Experiences in Higher Education

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Christian Köppe,

Roald Verhoeff,

Wouter van JoolingenAuthors Info & Claims

EuroPLoP '20: Proceedings of the European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs 2020

Article No.: 24, Pages 1 - 11

https://doi.org/10.1145/3424771.3424798

Published: 17 December 2020 Publication History

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Incremental Grading is a student-driven assessment approach where students have the responsibility to grade their own work based on pre-defined assessment criteria, usually rubrics. The desired outcomes of Incremental Grading are higher self-assessment skills, higher ownership of learning, lower degree of procrastination, and a more distributed workload for teachers.

The approach has been described as a pattern language in previous work and has now been applied in two courses for academic teaching. In this experience report we evaluate the effectiveness of Incremental Grading in these courses, using a mixed-method approach. The results show that Incremental Grading has a positive impact on the self-assessment skills of students, can positively affect the quality of their work and consequently their final grades, and makes teacher's feedback more valuable.

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Troost Ivan den Bosch LNederlof NNazar SWijers MBakker APieters T(2024)Student assistants as mentor-participants: a case study of distributing leadership in academic co-design educationFrontiers in Education10.3389/feduc.2024.13890659Online publication date: 1-Nov-2024
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