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GRADING
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You can find sample grading rubrics online. You can also find sample rubrics for use in writing-based, biology, and math courses in the print version of the Teaching Guide.
- “Teaching Effectiveness Award” Essays. Read about creative solutions to classroom assessment developed by your fellow GSIs, organized under the topic heading “Assessment Techniques.”
- Relevant selections from Barbara Gross Davis, Tools for Teaching (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993) can be found on-line through the Office of Educational Development. <http://teaching.berkeley.edu/teaching.html#publications>. The entire book can be accessed electronically if you are using a computer connected to the UC Berkeley Campus student network. Alternatively, you check the book out from the GSI Teaching and Resource Center’s library (301 Sproul Hall).
The following articles on grading and assessment of student work can be found in the print version of the Teaching Guide or in the GSI Teaching and Resource Center’s library:
- Ronkowski, Shirley. “Evaluating What You’ve Done.” Ch 2 in TAs as Teachers: A Handbook for Teaching Assistants at UCSB. Santa Barbara: Office of Instructional Consultation, 2003. This chapter has particularly useful suggestions about constructing tests.
- Walvoord, Barbara, and Virginia Johnson Anderson. “Managing the Grading Process.” Ch 2 in Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998. This chapter provides a list of basic principles to make grading both more effective and more efficient.
- Dresner, Lisa, “Guidelines for Writing Letters of Recommendation.” Teaching Perspectives. (GSI Teaching and Resource Center, University of California, Berkeley) 5.2 (1996): 1-2. Although this article is not about grading per se, it provides tips from a former GSI on evaluating student work for the purpose of writing letters of recommendation.
