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Title: Standards-Based Grading in Difficult Times: Precalculus Student Perceptions during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Language: English
Authors: Rachel Epstein
Source: International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 2023 17(2).
Availability: Centers for Teaching & Technology at Georgia Southern University. IJ-SoTL, Georgia Southern University, Henderson Library 1301, Statesboro, GA 30460. e-mail: sotlij@georgiasouthern.edu; Web site: https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 11
Publication Date: 2023
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Grading, Student Attitudes, Calculus, Academic Standards, Student Evaluation, Undergraduate Students
ISSN: 1931-4744
Abstract: Standards-based grading is an alternative grading system that gives students multiple opportunities to demonstrate proficiency in course standards or objectives. It has the potential to provide flexibility and reduce student anxiety, which are particularly important during difficult times such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, students in a Precalculus course using standards-based grading between Spring 2021 and Spring 2022 were surveyed about how the pandemic had affected their learning and the benefits and challenges of standards-based grading. The students who took the course in Spring 2021, whose previous learning was least affected by the pandemic, were most likely to find standards-based grading beneficial. However, in all three semesters, students on average reported that compared with exams in previous math courses, assessments in the standards-based graded course were lower stakes and would better help them understand the material and to know what to study.
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Entry Date: 2024
Accession Number: EJ1410738
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