Alternative Grading Systems
Pass-Fail Systems. Other colleges and universities, faculties, schools, and institutions use pass-fail grading systems in the Philippines, especially when the…
Standardized Test Scoring
Test standardization is a process by which teacher or researcher-made tests are validated and item analyzed. After a thorough process…
Four Questions in Grading (Svinicki, 2007)
Marinila D. Svinicki (2007) of the Center for Teaching Effectiveness of the University of Texas at Austin poses four intriguing…
Criterion-Referenced Grading
Criterion-referenced grading systems are based on a fixed criterion measure. There is a fixed target and the students must achieve…
Norm-Referenced Grading
Assessment of student performance is essentially knowing how the student is progressing in a course (and, incidentally, how a teacher…
Automating Performance-Based Tests
Going by the complexity of the issues that need to be addressed in designing performance-based tests, it is clear that…
Assessment of Learning: Rubrics and Exemplars
Modern assessment methods tend to use rubrics to describe student performance. A rubric is a scoring method that lists the…