Best Paper in Instructional Innovation Addresses Non-Linear Grading
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Winner of the Best Paper in the Instructional Innovation track at AMA Winter Educators Conference, “Non-Linear Grading: Inventory of Practices and Test of Effects,” looks at the validity of linear grading systems and how a non-linear grading system may be more attractive.
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Does a traditional grading system do a great disservice to today’s students? Has higher education neglected validity of grading? Birgit Leisen Pollack and Bryan Lilly, both of the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh address these issues in “Non-Linear Grading: Inventory of Practices and Test of Effects,” the winner of the Best Paper in the Instructional Innovation track at the 2009 AMA Winter Educators Conference.
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