There is a longstanding debate about whether traditional grading—letter grades based on a student’s content knowledge, classroom behavior, and extra credit—appropriately measures student success.
A team of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, San Diego have discovered positive uses for AI and extra credit assignments to help improve ...
Last week, when I returned the latest batch of assignments in a short story class, the inevitable happened. A student approached me and asked, “Can I do extra credit?” This request flummoxes me more ...
Assignments and the associated grades represent one of the most powerful tools in our teaching repertoire. It takes great care and precision to design assessments, and how we measure and translate ...