Purpose In health professions education (HPE), the effect of assessments on student
motivation for learning and its consequences have been largely neglected. This is …

Are you satisfied with your current and traditional grading system? Does it accurately reflect
your students' learning and progress? Can it be gamed? Does it lead to grade-grubbing and …

Specifications (specs) grading is a grading system in which mastery of specific educational
outcomes is the basis for the final grade a student earns in the course. Implementation of the …

Large, multisection laboratory courses are particularly challenging when managing grading
with as many as 35 teaching assistants (TAs). Traditional grading systems using point-based …

Due to a lack of buy‐in from multiple stakeholder groups, institutions of higher learning may
struggle to reorient their entire course and program offerings to embrace the full breadth of …

In our previous work, we piloted a specifications grading system in an organic chemistry
laboratory course with 37 students. Our current work describes the scale up of that …

Specifications grading is an alternative approach designed to establish assessment criteria
aligned with well-defined learning outcomes while giving students autonomy and choice …

Specifications grading is an alternative grading scheme that prioritizes transparency and
progress-oriented feedback, with the goals of increasing student motivation, fostering clear …

Public administration scholarship has documented the effectiveness of rubrics in assessing
student competencies within classrooms and across MPA programs. Rubrics are one of …

Points-based grading, though now traditional, faces powerful critiques: Such grading creates
a low road to passing, it undermines motivation, it wastes time, and it causes stress. It …