Timeline for What are the advantages and disadvantages of cumulative vs percentage grading?
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| Apr 29, 2018 at 15:13 | answer | added | ivanivan | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 20, 2018 at 0:40 | answer | added | Kevin | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 20:34 | answer | added | phyrfox | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 15:41 | comment | added | Buffy | Edited and I hope clarified. See the end. | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 15:40 | history | edited | Buffy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarified, I hope
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| Mar 19, 2018 at 15:31 | comment | added | Gorchestopher H | If the assignment component of your course represents 800 total points, and you have an assignment worth 100 of those points. You forfeit 100 points of 800, or 12.5% of your assignment grade. How is this significantly different than getting 0 on one of 8 assignments, each worth 12.5% of your assignment grade? It's possible that I just don't have a good definition of what makes these methods distinct, every grading system I've experienced has been some kind of hybrid. | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 14:37 | comment | added | Buffy | @GorchestopherH: Usually with percentage grading, a student gets a 0 for not doing an assignment and the effect of this might be less predictable. Possibly not, of course, depending on other factors, but predictability is a good thing for students, IMO. | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 14:32 | answer | added | user4719 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 13:52 | comment | added | Gorchestopher H | Can you further describe percentage grading? From your description, there seems to be a similar impact to assignment skipping in either case. Even when using percentage grading, it would appear that assignment scores are still "cumulative" in the sense that they are added together. It appears that the only real difference between the two methods is that the weighting applied is by the point total of the assignment, not some external applied weight. | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 13:31 | answer | added | Java Jive | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 12:53 | answer | added | Buffy | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 19, 2018 at 11:59 | history | asked | Buffy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |