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Avoiding bad grades

Aug 2, 2023

in Assessment, Note

assessment, grades, grading
Ranking students, or developing understanding?

Dec 7, 2012

in Education, Learning, Physiotherapy, Teaching

grades, learning, marks, ranking, tutorials, understanding

We have a collection of courses at my institution that have become known as “killer courses”. These are the courses with a history of poor student performance in terms of throughput and retention, and which we’re trying to provide extra support for. Two of these killer courses are outside courses (i.e. outside of our department)…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-05

Apr 5, 2010

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the lost art of solitude http://zenhabits.net/2010/04/solitude/ # @dkeats I use #hootsuite almost exclusively because everything I tweet is from the browser, so its already open. Besides, #AIR sucks # RT @openended: Ubuntu 10.10 to be codenamed Maverick Meerkat – http://arst.ch/hyt # RT @barrykayton: Just uploaded nine short video interviews about Cognician: http://bit.ly/9NIv77 #cognician # The…