Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

12-2021

Abstract

There is a negative perception about “grading on a curve,” because of the feeling that the cohort strength may skew the final grades one way or another. However, given the difficulties in ensuring absolute uniformity in assessment across the years, especially when taught and assessed by different instructors under different settings, grading on a curve may be a necessary evil. Once we accept this type of statistical moderation as the last line of defense in standardizing the final scores so that student cohorts from different terms or sections or schools may be compared, we have to implement it well. In this paper, we present the practice of grading on a curve as form of statistical moderation, and a moderation tool to achieve the objective behind the standardization of grades, the strategy and principles behind its implementation and our experiences with it.

Keywords

assessment and evaluation, statistical modera- tion, summative assessments, grading on a curve

Discipline

Computer Sciences | Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Higher Education

Research Areas

Information Systems and Management

Publication

2021 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE): Wuhan, December 5-8: Proceedings

First Page

734

Last Page

739

ISBN

9781665436878

Identifier

10.1109/TALE52509.2021.9678570

Publisher

IEEE

City or Country

Piscataway, NJ

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE52509.2021.9678570

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