A simple grading hack will help make your course more engaging. Give your students room to grow with additive grading. With additive grading, students can only go upward.
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Have you ever had a student ask what they needed to do to increase their grade? I never have because I did not set up the conditions where they needed to. With subtractive grading, students can only go down and then need extra points to raise their grades. Additive grading works the other way around. Students are always moving up.
In order for students to attain the grade they desire, they must accumulate points. They start at zero and then everything they do contributes to the grade they want. I picked this strategy up from the book The Multiplayer Classroom by Lee Sheldon.
Additive grading leverages the best of game-based elements to encourage students to keep improving. Because there is regular and constant positive feedback, students tend to repeat positive performance.
This week we are going to take a look at additive grading.
Additional Reading
- ITC: 16 – Games and Gamification in the Classroom
- ITC: 31 – Can Specification Grading Simplify Grading and Increase Learning?
- ITC: 38 – Using Adaptive Release in Your Classroom
- ITC: 73 – Why Is Self-Directed Learning Important and How Do You Develop It?
- Book Review: The Multiplayer Classroom
- Gamifying your Teaching: Guidelines for Integrating Gameful Learning in the Classroom
- When It Comes to Grading, Some of Us Have it Backwards
- What Is Additive Grading? Increasing Student Engagement By Grading Backwards
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