Assignment 2: Final version of grading criteria

It is time to construct the final version of your grading criteria. We recommend that you use the following structure in your work on this assignment (point 1-8 below). Note that you should present your work as a readable and cohesive report (point 9 below defines what the report should contain).

1. Review your own submission 1 in the same way as you peer-reviewed two others’ submissions.
2. Show your submission 1 (or an updated version of it) to at least one (new or old) student to get some student’s feedback on the ILOs and grading criteria.
3. Reflect on all feedback you have received.
4. Modify your grading criteria using the feedback. We suggest that you should feel free when suggesting changes, so that you (at this time) do not have to be restricted by what your colleagues or your director of study will accept.
5. Add missing grading criteria and the form of assessment (lab, homework, project report, oral presentation, written exam etc.) for each ILO. We recommend that you present this as a matrix (as in Viggo’s ADC example from meeting 1).
6. For each assignment to be assessed, sketch how you will assess the students using the criteria. You may need to state operational grading criteria.
7. Show how the assessment of the course will guarantee that each student who pass the course will fulfill all ILOs to the E level (pass) criteria.
8. Construct a formula for combining the grades.
9. Write and submit a report consisting of two parts that can be put in the same document. The format should be portrait A4 size with 12 points font size. The first part should be a self-contained report in the form of (a part of) a course memo, fulfilling the requirements of the KTH regulations, hence including the following:
   1. the ILOs
   2. the grading criteria
   3. the assessment tasks
   4. the alignment between the assessments and the grading criteria, also showing that passing the assessments will guarantee fulfillment of the ILOs
   5. the formula for combining the grades.

The second part should be a reflection:

1. 1. motivating why you designed your criteria (and assessments) as you did,
   2. showing that you have considered the feedback from the peers and the student,
   3. reflecting on how you will use the grading criteria in your teaching to make the students aware of what is expected of them at the assessment,
   4. reflecting on the effects your formula for combining grades may have on the learning process.

We strongly recommend that you submit a preliminary version of the report for peer feedback before May 11 at 19:00. The submission of the preliminary version is done at a separate page.

Before you submit, go through the grading criteria for LH216V (see the rubric matrix on this page) and check that your report shows fulfillment of all of them.

Submit your report as a PDF document in Canvas. If you cannot see the submit button below, you probably need to login to Canvas using the key symbol in the upper left corner of the window.

We will grade the report according to the grading criteria (the ILOs) of LH216V and give you constructive feedback on your grading criteria in Canvas. At the final meeting, we will discuss your submitted grading criteria. After this, you are welcome to revise your grading criteria again and send them to viggo@kth.se so that we can include them on the web among the other examples of grading critera used at KTH.

Good luck!

Viggo, Hans and Camilla