There are many ways to grade students. One is to provide a fixed body of student work and then give a percentage grade for assignments, with the overall grade representing the percentage achieved of some ideal. 90% = A, etc. The student is expected to work on each assignment. This is Grading by P...
When working to teach developers Scheme (which is functional programming) I'll often show them analogous examples in C#. The idea is that by seeing something familiar it will make it easier for the students to understand the unfamiliar. But I'm not sure that this may actually be causing more co...
@Buffy It seems that the grading question is getting some traction. It seems that for the mathematically inclined students there is no difference. I was always able to know where I stood, relative to my final grade, in any grading system. At least when the syllabus specified what the weights were for different elements in the grading.
I teach Windows Forms programming, and now ASP.Net (essentially the same thing, except you view it in a browser) and I am dismayed that students seem to spend an enormous amount of time straining at gnats, trying to get picky details of the appearance correct. This involves them attempting to do ...
@Hark!Aquestion! I wish users would register when they ask questions. Hard to get clarifications and question improvements when they won't get notified of comments. :(
@Buffy I do hope that his project turns out to be a good as I sense he thinks it can be.
That's just something I can't wrap my brain around. It seems the same to me. Always has. I've been "graded" many ways, but it always amounts to different roads to the same place. Or, different ways to say the same thing.
Extra credit seems to be workable in any variation as well. And with Excel, or other tools, the "workload" on the instructor seems to be equal as well.
That's why I can't wrap my head around it enough to answer it. I know students can "see" it differently, but since I never did I can't relate to the issue.
It can also encourage re-work a bit more than percentage grading. Some students get things easily, but others need the repetition, so re-work can be a good thing for that same set of students.
I thought XP was fine until it died. I thought Win7 was fine until MS decided to kill it with forced upgrades. I still have the Win7 bootable, but am afraid to boot it now. Later versions have issues.