My teacher groups the people she likes in one area then groups the people she doesnt like in another. Our class is small, only 13 people. There are 4 people in the class she doesnt like and I am one of them. She gives favourable marks to the group she likes even when our work is clearly superior. I'd like to request an audit of her grading habits. I'm not sure how to do this, does anyone know how?
2007-10-24 05:34:00 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
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2007-10-24 05:34:37 · update #1
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2007-10-24 05:46:20 · update #2
As a mathematics teacher, I can only speak for myself.
When I score the tests of my students, it is partially subjective. It is the nature of the beast; it cannot be helped. If a particular math problem is say, worth 5 points, then part of those points are on the final answer and the other portion is based on the work the student shows.
Oftentimes, students who simply show the answer and no work of how it is obtained will not come close to earning the full 5 points. Others who show alot of strong, complete work, but don't have an accurate answer will have a goodly portion of those 5 points. But whether each gets 2 pts or 3 pts, or if one gets 4 and the other 2 pts, or vice-versa, is subjective at some stage.
I am curious of how you determine when your quad's "work is clearly superior" to the other 9 students in the class. You are being subjective (sokay, it is natural) based upon what you know and understand. Your teacher is being subjective based on what she is shown.
I don't have an exact answer for you, because subjectiveness is just that. What I will do is give some advice on how to follow-up on your query.
Among your quad, compare your tests, HW, projects, whatever and see how she seemed to score them. When 2 or 3 of you missed the same question, did she give the exact same penalty or did she score one less severely ... try to determine the reason among yourselves. If you can discover why it was scored the way it was, then examine a different question where some of you missed the same one until you arrive at one that doesn't make sense as to the given mark.
Take all the papers up to your teacher and ask her directly how she determined her scoring. It may take her a moment to reexamine each of the scores and how she replayed it in her mind as she made her decision.
The best way to "audit" her grading habits is to simply inquire with her. If she has nothing to hide, she'll try to share how she arrived at her decision.
There have been a couple of instances in my 14 years of teaching that I've changed scores after-the-fact. I determined I should have given one person a higher score, and made that alteration. No problem. I had no animosity and agreed with the petitioners about what should have been. There have been other times that when I explained my reasoning that it simply reaffirmed my belief I had scored them accurately.
In the end, there is a good bit of subjectivity in scoring work done by students ... even in math, and probably more so in other subjects.
2007-10-24 10:24:53 · answer #1 · answered by dwalon2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-13 22:17:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To see if there are similar complaints from others:
http://www.ratemyteachers.com/ or
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/index.jsp
If there are alot of complaints from others maybe you can use them to make your point.
2007-10-24 07:07:18 · answer #3 · answered by Dee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋