Juliana, please don't worry about the question and discussions that followed your email. The reason why the thread became controversial and a long debate is because assessing articles quality has been hard for everyone I guess. Not an individual problem, but a movement problem for which nobody has the perfect answer.
I think some good inputs came out of this and that's obviously your call to decide the best way to grade your students. You've been constantly experimenting and this is important to find pros and cons of the methodologies you try.
Perhaps, establishing a minimum contribution (a complete paragraph with references? I don't know) could help you establish a baseline and you wouldn't have to be counting bytes (we can help you on this, but believe me, it can be hard, especially when they work in groups, or forget to login etc).
Oona
On 31 January 2014 08:09, domusaurea domusaurea@gmail.com wrote:
And this was how I learned not to ask questions, ever.
Juliana
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Em 31/01/2014, às 02:17, Everton Zanella Alvarenga <
everton.alvarenga@okfn.org> escreveu:
I belive Frank will like your approach. You should let him know. :)
Prizes depending on the number of bytes would be really cool and
pedagogical.
2014-01-27 Juliana Bastos Marques domusaurea@gmail.com:
*NOT a CFP!* ;)
Hello all!
I have been thinking about using the criterion of a minimum number of
bytes
to evaluate the students' edits for my next course - together with
content,
of course. This came up because I noticed some students were editing as little as possible, and this time I want the whole group to start new articles from scratch.
Has anyone used this approach? Pros/cons? What would you consider a reasonable number for the minimum of bytes in the final article?
Juliana.
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