Mastery Grading: Build-A-Syllabus Workshop

Cilli-Turner, Emily; Dunmyre, Justin R.; Mahoney, Thomas A.; Wiley, Chad

doi:10.1080/10511970.2020.1733152

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“…This method is called "mastery grading," and it emphasizes reaching a certain level of competence with the material instead of measuring a student's performance by giving them a grade for a specific assignment or exam. Depending on the task, students can either keep working on improving a specific assignment, for example rewriting an essay, or they can take additional versions of an exam to demonstrate that they have mastered a particular skill, such as using Bayes' theorem or working with stochastic truth-tables (see, e.g., Cilli-Turner et al 2020 for specific ideas of how to implement mastery grading). However, this technique can be difficult to implement in larger classes, because it potentially creates an unmanageable amount of grading for the instructor.…”

Section: Assignment Designmentioning

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Probability without Tears

Staffel¹

2023

Teaching Philosophy

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This article is about teaching probability to students of philosophy who don’t aim to do primarily formal work in their research. These students are unlikely to seek out classes about probability or formal epistemology for various reasons, for example because they don’t realize that this knowledge would be useful for them or because they are intimidated by the material. However, most areas of philosophy now contain debates that incorporate probability, and basic knowledge of it is essential even for philosophers whose work isn’t primarily formal. In this article, I explain how to teach probability to students who are not already enthusiastic about formal philosophy, taking into account the common phenomena of math anxiety and the lack of reading skills for formal texts. I address course design, lesson design, and assignment design. Most of my recommendations also apply to teaching formal methods other than probability theory.

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Section: Assignment Designmentioning

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Probability without Tears

Staffel¹

2023

Teaching Philosophy

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“…The instructor determined that obtaining initial student buy-in for specifications grading is critical, as initially they will not be familiar with the expectations or workflow. Moreover, students at first may worry that the lack of partial credit may hurt their grade and make the course too difficult 25. To avert these concerns, a grading policies page was placed in the learning management system (LMS).…”

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“…Moreover, students at first may worry that the lack of partial credit may hurt their grade and make the course too difficult. 25 To avert these concerns, a grading policies page was placed in the learning management system (LMS). The page included an instructor-recorded video and written information about the grading system, Copyright © 2023 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.…”

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Implementing a Specifications Grading System in a Nursing Course

Dabney

VanDerWoude

2023

Nurse Educ

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Background: Nurse educators are charged with the challenging task of evaluating student learning and abilities effectively using traditional student assessment methods, which come with several inherent shortcomings. New guidelines for nurse educators now present a more competency-based approach to nursing education that calls for objective-driven assessments. Problem: Traditional grading practices lack the ability to connect student learning to their final course grades. However, specifications grading, which directly links grades to learning objectives, has not been not adequately explored in the nursing literature. Approach: A specifications grading system was designed and implemented in an online undergraduate nursing research course. Student and faculty feedback on the system were reviewed. Conclusions: Overall, students and faculty approved of the specifications grading system. Recommendations are presented for adopting specifications grading in nursing courses. Research is needed to explore student perceptions of the grading system and its effects on student learning and performance.

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“…Newcomers to mastery grading will want to pay special attention to two articles that serve as the dividing line between between these introductory articles and the second thematic grouping. "Mastery Grading: Build-a-Syllabus Workshop" by Cilli-Turner et al [2] provides a structured series of questions that step new practitioners through the process of creating their own mastery grading system, with many examples provided. In "Mastering Your Sales Pitch: Selling Mastery Grading to Your Students and Yourself" [9], Kelly gives concrete advice and describes common pitfalls to avoid for new instructors.…”

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“…By this point, we hope you will be buzzing with ideas about how you could use mastery grading in your own classes. As described above, you will next find two key articles [2,9] that provide detailed, hands-on advice to help you plan out your own mastery-graded classes.…”

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Introduction to the Special Issue on Implementing Mastery Grading in the Undergraduate Mathematics Classroom

Campbell

Clark²,

OShaughnessy

2020

PRIMUS

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This editorial serves as an introduction to the Special Issue on Implementing Mastery Grading in the Undergraduate Mathematics Classroom. We provide a broad introduction to mastery grading and describe articles in this special issue that provide a wide range of implementations of mastery grading in a variety of undergraduate mathematics classrooms. We conclude by identifying additional resources available to new practitioners, and describing ideas for future work related to mastery grading. We hope this special issue will serve as a resource for both experienced practitioners and those who wish to begin using mastery grading.

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Mastery Grading: Build-A-Syllabus Workshop

Cited by 9 publications

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Probability without Tears

Probability without Tears

Implementing a Specifications Grading System in a Nursing Course

Introduction to the Special Issue on Implementing Mastery Grading in the Undergraduate Mathematics Classroom

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