2003 UW TA Conference on Teaching & Learning
Giving Students Feedback and Assigning Grades

Facilitator: , grad student in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program

This workshop was presented as part of a conference on Teaching and Learning, sponsored by CIDR to provide instructional resources for TAs at the University of Washington. This website was created to supplement materials prsented at the workshop, "Giving Students Feedback and Assigning Grades."

I welcome feedback from workshop participants - if you have any questions or comments about the material presented, want to brainstorm grading ideas, or have specific assessment issues, feel free to e-mail me at the address above - I will do my best to help!

Table of Contents

1. "Things We Know Now that We Wish We'd Known Then" - collection of important tips and pointers about grading and assessment, collected from experienced TAs.

2. General resources related to assessment and grading

3. Types of Assessment - resources and websites related to choosing the right assessment tool, and constructing effective exams and assignments.

4. Providing Constructive Feedback - resources and websites for providing verbal and written feedback to students.

5. Grading - Criteria and Strategies

6. Primary Trait Analysis (aka Rubrics) - resources and websites for constructing PTAs for assignments, and communicating these grading criteria to students.