Thursday, May 28, 2009

Analytic vs. Holistic Scoring....dundundunnnn

After doing some outside reading on the topics of analytic and holistic scoring I think I have the gist of the two forms of scoring. Simply put, analytic scoring is more specific and looking at the details put into the work by the student. With analytic scoring it may benefit having more than one person grading the work, as people have different opinions on what is good work. Analytic is generally more specific and looking for key responses which the student should give for their work to be correct. An example of this would be:
Please give and then explain 3 health enhancing behaviors we have already discussed in class. With your explanation, I expect you to provide at least 2 specific reasons why the behavior given enhances health.

I like the idea of penalties for information just randomly thrown out into the answer, as it is hard to assess what is correct and what is wrong and what actually applies.

Holistic scoring is more used for work as a whole, such as essays, projects, presentations, where a single score will be given for the work as a final product.
For questions created for holistic scoring styles you could create a spectrum of grading. For example, if a student was answering an essay question you could use a scale of 0-5, 0 = way off base, nothing remotely correct in the answer, 1 = minimal amount of information, 2 = some information, but lower than average, definitely should have provided more information on topic, 3 = average, nothing too exciting, but provides a fair amount of information, 4 = good work, a little more than average, and 5 = definitely studied and learned the information, has a concrete knowledge of topic.

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