Submitted by: Jennifer Brewer, jbrewer1@uca.edu on 07/12/2024
Instructors may use the delegated grading option to allow grading privileges to more than one user (another instructor, teaching assistant, or grader). This can promote reliability and remove bias.
Examples of how delegated grading can be used:
- For large classes, the grading tasks may be divided among teaching assistants and other graders.
- For a cross-listed course, you can assign each grader a class section. After all delegated graders provide grades and feedback, one or more instructors review the grading to determine a final grade or to reconcile it.
- Parallel graders – Two graders grade the same submissions. They can each view the other’s grading and discuss final grades.
- Blind graders – Two graders grade the same submissions. They can’t see each other’s grading or discuss them.
- Sample double graders – Two graders. Grader 1 grades all submissions. Grader 2 grades a random set, but can view Grader 1’s grades and feedback.
- Sample double-blind graders – Two graders. Grader 1 grades all submissions. Grader 2 grades a random set of submissions. Neither can see what the other assigned.
- Instructor + colleague grader – The lead instructor grades all the submissions and then views a colleague’s feedback about a random sampling of grades. For the final grade, the lead instructor reviews comments and decides whether or not to accept the colleague’s suggestions.
Delegated grading may require the reconciling of grades – the determination of the final grades by the instructor.
Using delegated grading is an option an instructor would set for each assignment individually. Of course, not all assignments need to be graded in this method. However, there may be one of two assignments in a semester where it can be beneficial to have input from other graders.
Note:
In the rare occurrence that a delegated grader may need to be removed, please contact Instructional Technology (desupport@uca.edu). It’s important that the grader’s access to the course be removed rather than removing the grader from the course itself.