A Call for Critical Technology to Enable Innovative and Alternative Grading PracticesK12
This program is tentative and subject to change.
The call for alternative and more equitable grading practices has been made both inside and outside the computing education community. Various practices exist to provide assessment and feedback to students that do not rely strictly on points out of one hundred percent, weighted averages, high stakes assignments, and grading for behaviors instead of learning. However, modern classrooms, especially computer science classrooms, rely on a myriad of digital tools to organize and maintain the course structure. Tools like learning management systems, automatic grading systems, submission systems, and practice systems all exist for computing students and faculty to use to help support the learning of programming concepts. By and large, these systems all rely on an underlying mechanism of points and aggregating points for scoring. In the face of such technology choices, adopting more equitable grading practices can prove challenging for instructors and confusing for students. In this position paper, we advocate addressing key research problems to make these systems easier to use with equitable grading practices. These include comprehensive support for categorical grading, comprehensive support for rework and resubmission, and improved protocols for communication of scores and feedback. We discuss current problems and potential solutions and challenge the community to work on these problems and consider the design of future systems to embrace grading approaches that go beyond just points-based scoring.
This program is tentative and subject to change.
Thu 19 FebDisplayed time zone: Central Time (US & Canada) change
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13:40 20mTalk | CS Teaching Assistant Perceptions on LLM-Generated Faded Worked Examples for Feedback Training Papers Justin Gonzaga University of New South Wales, Alexandra Vassar University of New South Wales, Sydney, Yuchao Jiang UNSW | ||
14:00 20mTalk | EduLint: a Versatile Tool for Code Quality Feedback Papers | ||
14:20 20mTalk | A Call for Critical Technology to Enable Innovative and Alternative Grading PracticesK12 Papers Adrienne Decker University at Buffalo, Stephen Edwards Virginia Tech, Bob Edmison Virginia Tech, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones University of North Carolina Charlotte, Audrey Rorrer UNC Charlotte | ||
14:40 20mTalk | Fighting Fire with Fire: LLM-Assisted Grading of Handwritten CS AssessmentsK12 Papers Jared Apillanes University of California, Irvine, Jason Weber University of California, Irvine, Sergio Gago-Masague University of California, Irvine, Jennifer Wong-Ma University of California, Irvine, Thomas Yeh University of California, Irvine | ||