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ENG102-Teaching Strategy: Team Activity, Sample Paper vs the Rubric |
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Miguel Fernandez (Phoenix College) migbusab@cox.net |
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Phoenix College |
discipline(s) |
English |
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An ENG102 class is split into teams. They are given a sample paper and grading rubric. Students must individually grade the sample paper (as homework) and find at least 1 way to improve the paper per grading category. Next day meet as a group and choose a single set of rubric category scores to submit. The task: try to approximate the teacher's paper grade. Points in a sloped scale are given to each team based on the their approximation of the teacher's grades. |
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REQUIRES: Breaking students into teams; having covered most of the basic topics of writing a paper of the appropriate kind to be used; that this be just one group activity in a set of at least 3-5 point-evaluated activities; that there be a significant winning group reward. [From Pizza for the overall winning team, to dropping each team member's lowest grade from a homework assignment after all points are in, to exemption from a non-essential quiz etc. I find for ENG 102 exemption from a quiz an extreme motivator for group activity participation. Since the bulk of the grade (and consequently a "live" test of what's been learned) will come from skills demonstrated in a final paper rather than the exams, this type of quiz exemption sounds great to the students (free from one class, less worry about tests) while costing the teacher only a small fragment of assessment capital -- an excellent ROI.] BENEFITS: vanish fear of not understanding how papers are graded compared to wrong-right of standard questions, camaraderie, peer challenge/testing of each other's knowledge with minimal confrontational parameters (everyone on the team wants the same, unified goal: to win!), levity, application of knowledge, disarms anger of receiving a grade/fear of bias: everyone is graded in the same way. STEPS: Create a rubric with grading categories on a point scale (e.g. 100 points = perfect paper). In this case, I used 0 to 100 broken down into ... *FOR REST OF DETAILS* download attached .doc file, "teamgrading-mlx.doc" Note! As a professional courtesy to the owner of this package, if you use some aspect of this package or have some thoughts about it, please share your feedback via the comments form below. |
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Sample rubric - WORD file (document) Teamgrading-activity-FULL DETAILS (document) Note! As a professional courtesy to the owner of this package, if you use some aspect of this package or have some thoughts about it, please share your feedback below. |
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