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Specifications Grading

Teaching in Higher Ed

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What Is the Key Ingredient of Specs Grading?

Students are graded on individual assignments and tests. Students earn full credit or no credit depending on whether their work meets the specs that you laid out for that piece of work. Pass does not mean getting C or C minus level. And this is where we restore rigor. You make pass a B level quality of work. But whatever it is, you are raising the standards just for students to get credit. The other thing is the point system goes away.

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