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Record W84902002

Developing a Grading Rubric in a Multi-TA Course

2011· article· en· W84902002 on OpenAlexaff
Carolina Paz

Bibliographic record

VenueScholarship@Western (Western University) · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicExperimental Learning in Engineering
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRubricGrading (engineering)ConstructiveMathematics educationAutonomyComputer scienceConsistency (knowledge bases)PsychologyPedagogyProcess (computing)EngineeringPolitical scienceArtificial intelligence
DOInot available

Abstract

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This project aims to assist the development of a grading rubric for marking essays in a biomedical ethics course although the process outlined can be applied to any multi-TA course. Guaranteeing grading consistency across teaching assistants (TAs) in courses with multiples TAs is challenging. Multi-TA courses are particularly challenging to maintain the consistency among TAs in respect to, for instance, teaching strategies and grading essays. Past teaching experiences, educational background, teaching perspectives, gender, and cultural background are some reasons why inconsistencies happen.\nIn an attempt to overcome this challenge, this project proposes a session that brings together TAs and the course instructor to develop a grading rubric that both makes sense for all TAs and meets the instructor’s expectations of the content and format of the essay. It is true that TAs must have autonomy in terms of teaching strategies; however, some consistency in the grading process is necessary to guarantee fairness to all students. Research suggests that grading rubrics help TA to consistently mark students’ written assignments. Furthermore, rubrics help TAs to provide constructive feedback to students and guarantee that students know the how their assignments will be marked.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.150
GPT teacher head0.310
Teacher spread0.159 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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