This blog experience proved effective in helping students to better explain concepts to their professors and themselves, yet it proved to still be in a fledgeling state. The grading criteria were quickly altered at the beginning of the course, fine. But the new criteria was obviously not totally agreed upon. Many students doing the same amount of work and proving the same level of understanding often received vastly different grades.
Whether this is due to the subjectivity of the graders or due to the wording of the students themselves is not the point. The point is that there must be a much more definitive set of guidelines on what a good blog post is. Being that this is a class with over 400 people, the variation of grading from one TA to the next may be vast. So, a better grading criteria would remove much of the subjectivity and focus more on the students' understanding of the material.
Writing a poor blog post with apt mastery of the material should not get in the way of the students' grade. This is the most important thing that needs to be altered in the class because it is new and accounts for a large part of the grade in the course.
Yes, you can use my blog in a paper or report.
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