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Article: Student self-grading in social statistics.
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- College Teaching
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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Abstract. This article analyzes a social statistics class that engaged in self-grading. Students liked self-grading because they identified their own mistakes, it reinforced what they learned, and they received immediate feedback. Some students worded that others would cheat, but this assertion was not confirmed in the data and the possibility of cheating can be controlled in various ways. Self-grading may also reduce student-teacher conflict and student anxiety.
Keywords: math anxiety, self-grading, social statistics
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University teachers have been experimenting with student self-grading in various contexts with some positive results. ...