Grading

As it is an experimental course and first time for us, the initial assessment scheme doesn’t work very well in all items. Thus, we agreed that every facilitator is going to give his/her opinion (a short description of what was good, what would have needed more attention and effort, etc.) for his/her students to justify the final grade. I will write these into your contract postings. Grade itself i can send with mail.

If you look at the evaluation scheme, self evaluation is big part of the grade. I hope i can find self-evaluation in the contract posts or as a separate post in your blogs.

Grading system is following:
A - 90-100% of the work is done - excellent: outstanding performance with only minor errors
B - 80-90% of the work is done - very good: above average standard, but with some minor errors
C - 70-80% of the work is done - good: generally good work with a number of notable errors
D - 60-70% of the work is done - satisfactory: fair but with significant shortcomings
E - 50-60% of the work is done - sufficient: passable performance, meeting the minimum criteria
F- less than 50% of the work is done - fail: more work is required before the credit can be awarded.

The initial grading system was the following:

* 25 % of the grade is given by facilitator for individual reading and reflecting activities in personal weblog. To get the assessment, students must reflect upon the home-reading questions and personal experience questions in the tasks pages.
* 10 % of grade is given by the peers for for students’ self-directed learning (according to the evaluation criteria developed by the student in his/her personal learning contract).
* 15 % of grade is given by the student himself/herself for his/her self-directed learning (according to the evaluation criteria developed by the student in his/her personal learning contract).
* 25 % of the grade is based on peer-assessment on group product (prototypes of e-learning courses) using the voting system to assess the course quality (view an example) and writing comments about the course prototypes. See the criteria students should use to evaluate the e-learning course prototypes.
* 25 % assessment is based on group facilitator’s assessment on group product (prototypes of e-learning courses). Criteria to evaluate the e-learning course prototypes.

So, today i look all your work and see how can i follow the grading rules