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I'm a high school teacher. I have a turn-taking system for students to keep track of participation points earned in class each day, with a general gradebook that I give them and have set up.

I am now starting to realize, however, that there is some "point gouging" going on -- some students are marking down way more points than are earned for their buddies or... favorite people in class, I guess?

So... Any ideas for making this work well, taking the corruption out of it? I was thinking color-coded pens. Anything else?
Vet Teacher On 6/06/12, teaching wrote:

Corruption seems to be rampant in our society even up to the highest levels...

but my question would be- why do you turn this over to the students? If something is important, then you should be doing it. By giving the task out to students, it sends an odd message. You're trivializing it - suggesting tha...See More
Aug 9, 2012
S. Slater Why don't you just have them rate themselves instead of peers? You are a good judge of what you saw and it would be interesting to see how they rate their participation compared to you. This would also open up dialogue about your expectations in class and clarify any misconceptions of what "participaton" looks like in class.

On 8/09/12, Ve...See More
Sep 2, 2012
C $man Interesting responses. Keep 'em coming. Thanks for the input.

On 9/02/12, S. Slater wrote: > Why don't you just have them rate themselves instead of peers? > You are a good judge of what you saw and it would be interesting > to see how they rate their participation compared to you. This > would also open up dialogue about your...See More
Sep 2, 2012


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