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Marking for TA’s

Marking for TA’s. Objective. The Guardian. Participants will be able to develop a plan that will enable TA’s to mark student assignments fairly, accurately, and effectively. Discussion. One of your assignments this semester is to mark student work.

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Marking for TA’s

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  1. Marking for TA’s TA Marking

  2. Objective The Guardian Participants will be able to develop a plan that will enable TA’s to mark student assignments fairly, accurately, and effectively. TA Marking - John Parry - UBCO -CTL

  3. Discussion • One of your assignments this semester is to mark student work. • You have been handed a stack of 100 papers. • What information do you need to know before you can begin? FCSI.WS TA Marking

  4. What do you need to discuss with your supervisor? TA Marking

  5. Develop a plan! Supervisors and TA marking • colleagues, discuss the following: • What should we communicate to the students prior to submission? unitymanagement TA Marking

  6. Develop a plan! Supervisors and TA marking • colleagues, discuss the following: • What should we communicate to the students prior to • submission? • What are the objectives of the assignment? unitymanagement TA Marking

  7. Develop a plan! Supervisors and TA marking • colleagues, discuss the following: • What should we communicate to the students prior to • submission? • What are the objectives of the assignment? • What should we look for in order to evaluate the essays? unitymanagement TA Marking

  8. Develop a plan! Supervisors and TA marking • colleagues, discuss the following: • What should we communicate to the students prior to • submission? • What are the objectives of the assignment? • What should we look for in order to evaluate the essays? • What constitutes an excellent, good, adequate, or poor paper? unitymanagement TA Marking

  9. Develop a plan! Supervisors and TA marking • colleagues, discuss the following: • What should we communicate to the students prior to • submission? • What are the objectives of the assignment? • What should we look for in order to evaluate the essays? • What constitutes an excellent, good, adequate, or poor paper? • What should we include in our comments? unitymanagement TA Marking

  10. Develop a plan! Supervisors and TA marking • colleagues, discuss the following: • What should we communicate to the students prior to • submission? • What are the objectives of the assignment? • What should we look for in order to evaluate the essays? • What constitutes an excellent, good, adequate, or poor paper? • What should we include in our comments? • How can we manage our time? How long should we spend on marking? unitymanagement TA Marking

  11. Evaluating the Writing Discuss the following with your supervisor: Clarify the relative weighting of content, expression, format, grammar, etc. TA Marking

  12. Evaluating the Writing Discuss the following with your supervisor: Clarify the relative weighting of content, expression, format, grammar, etc. Share sample essays to calibrate your marking: have each marker read essays to locate excellent, good, average, and poor. Share these and discuss. Develop a set of attributes tied to each of the letter grades. TA Marking

  13. Communicating Expectations to Students • Stress expectations and university standards. • Include detailed formatting expectations. • Identify the required documentation style. • Clarify precise expectations related to submission. • Discuss plagiarism, how to avoid it, consequences, and process. • Double spaced ? • Binders ? TA Marking

  14. SWBAT … TA Marking

  15. Consider using letters (tied to UBC numbers) rather than numbers. Sometimes numbers communicate quality (A=excellent), and quality is what you are looking for. A+ 90 – 100 B+ 76 – 79A 85 – 89 B 72 - 75 A- 80 - 84 TA Marking

  16. Another Question What does a good paper look like? Average? Failing paper? TA Marking

  17. Sites.fcps.org TA Marking

  18. Style Complexity TA Marking

  19. New Question How much commenting should I do? TA Marking

  20. Including Useful Comments • Comments that run through the paper should help the student understand what they are doing wrong or incorrectly as well as what they are doing well or right. • These comments help the student understand the grade. TA Marking

  21. A marking sheet helps reduce the amount • of writing you have to do! TA Marking

  22. A marking sheet helps reduce the amount • of writing you have to do! • Your final, summative comments should help the student understand why his or her paper deserved the mark it received. TA Marking

  23. A marking sheet helps reduce the amount • of writing you have to do! • Your final, summative comments should help the student understand why his or her paper deserved the mark it received. • Include what he or she did right and what he or she should do to improve on the next assignment. TA Marking

  24. A marking sheet helps reduce the amount • of writing you have to do! • Your final, summative comments should help the student understand why his or her paper deserved the mark it received. • Include what he or she did right and what he or she should do to improve on the next assignment. • End on a positive note (“I’m looking forward to reading your next paper.”) TA Marking

  25. A useful tip … Marking sheets and grade descriptions • Consider providing students with self review sheets that correlate to the assignment and the marking sheets. sd23 TA Marking

  26. Calibration meetings: • Before marking, to discuss assignment • and expectations. • Early in marking, to recalibrate based on sample papers. • After marking, to compare experience and discuss difficult or special cases. Seton.com TA Marking

  27. A few cautions … • If you suspect plagiarism or cheating … • Any papers that raise concerns related to academic integrity must be returned immediately to the instructor. TA Marking

  28. A few cautions … • If you feel that you are being bribed notify the instructor and clarify the issue with the student. • If you sense that a student is depressed or anxious notify the instructor, your unit’s administrative assistant, the Health and Wellness Centre (http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/students/health-wellness/welcome.html). TA Marking

  29. How do you handle an appeal? Always discuss in private Be prepared to explain criteria If you have made an error, correct it Explain that the student should consult further with the professor TA Marking

  30. This is his first semester at university, and Jeff is used to getting “A’s” in high school. He has just received his first “C” ever on the midterm in the course you are grading. He has emailed saying the test was unfair and asked to meet with you. What do you do? TA Marking

  31. Final Thought Careful planning and assignment design can help students, streamline marking, ensure fairness and accuracy, and reduce questions and queries. TA Marking

  32. http://www.cte.umd.edu/teaching/resources/GradingHandbook.pdfhttp://www.cte.umd.edu/teaching/resources/GradingHandbook.pdf University of Maryland Guide TA Marking

  33. Grading Resources  Walvoord & Anderson (2009) 2nd ed. Effective Grading: A Tool forLearning and Assessment . San Francisco: Jossey-Bass (1998)  IDEA papers: http://www.theideacenter.org/category/helpful- resources/knowledge-base/idea-paper Improving College Grading: http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper Nilson, Linda. B. (2003) Grading: Tests, Assignments, and Course Performance. In Teaching at its best: A research-based resource forcollege instructors. 2nded. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing p. 211-220  Edwards, N.M. (2007). Student self-grading in social statistics. College Teaching, v 55, no. 2, p72-75.  Landrum & Dietz (2006) Grading without points. College Teaching,v 54, no. 4, p298-301. http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/Rubrics/Rubrics.html TA Marking

  34. Grading handbook This is an excellent resource from the University of Maryland. Download it from: http://www.cte.umd.edu/teaching/resources/GradingHandbook.pdf Marking for TA’s A copy of today’s PowerPoint is on our CTL website .http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/ctl/tagrad/resources.html TA Marking

  35. en.hdyo.org Comments TA Marking

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