Timeline for Is it valid to modify a student's exam grade if you feel they did not earn it?
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| May 18, 2020 at 18:11 | comment | added | Sebi | @DanRomik "adding a “student clearly demonstrates understanding” requirement to my syllabus I will have secured for myself a blanket permission fail any student I feel like failing" - I did not read the answer like that. I read that it would be okay, as long as you did not know whose work you are marking. So you can't fail any student you (don't) like, but rather any work that doesn't show understanding. I agree that it should be okay iff the marking is done in a blind way, so it's impossible for you to be biased by student's character. That is unless the course is supposed to test character. | |
| May 18, 2020 at 9:00 | comment | added | Ian Sudbery | @usr1234567 Its an example of the lengths that we go to to avoid the possibility of what has happened here, thus providing evidence for how we regard such actions. | |
| May 18, 2020 at 8:58 | comment | added | Ian Sudbery | Each question is marked on a rubric with 6 criteria: 1. Coverage of areas relevant to the question, 2. Information is accurate 3. Sufficiently detailed information provided, 4. Answer structured in a way to bring out relevance and actaully answer the question 5. Demonstrates understanding 6. Provides evidence of reading beyond the lecture material. The grade in each criteria must be explained/evidenced with a written explaination at the end of each answer and examples highlighted in the students work. I teach biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology BTW. | |
| May 17, 2020 at 23:01 | comment | added | Dan Romik | So are you saying that by adding a “student clearly demonstrates understanding” requirement to my syllabus I will have secured for myself a blanket permission fail any student I feel like failing (based on their anonymizes exam and other assignments) without further explanation and regardless of their actual grades? If that’s not what you meant, can you clarify how exactly this requirement is used in practice? | |
| May 17, 2020 at 21:11 | comment | added | usr1234567 | This doesn't answer the question at all. | |
| May 17, 2020 at 12:47 | history | answered | Ian Sudbery | CC BY-SA 4.0 |