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Traits of Good Grading

Before any discussion of grading tools can be undertaken, it is necessary to first establish some concensus on what the minimum requirements for ``good'' grading are. As has been pointed out within official UCR CS&E Department policies on instruction, there is a difference between assignments that are intended as practice and assignments that are intended as evaluation. The majority of student submissions are likely to be intended more as practice than as assessment. In order for practice to be as educationally effective as possible, these features are considered a bare minimum feature set for a good grading system2.1:


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Titus Winters 2005-02-17