TY - GEN
T1 - Paper or online? A comparison of exam grading techniques
AU - Cao, Yingjun
AU - Porter, Leo
AU - Liao, Soohyun Nam
AU - Ord, Rick
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2019/7/2
Y1 - 2019/7/2
N2 - As computer science enrollments continue to surge, exam grading requires significant instructional resources. Online grading platforms have been developed in recent years and have been adopted at a number of institutions; however, their effectiveness compared with traditional grading on paper is not fully known. This study is the first in CS to compare online and paper grading. Comparing overall time to grade, including all factors, online grading doesn’t show a consistent advantage compared with paper grading. We observed that online grading is much faster during the actual grading phase, but some of this benefit is offset by the additional overhead prior to grading (e.g., scanning) for online grading. Examining student and grader preferences based on feedback, both groups show a strong preference for the online format, predominately due to the convenience of the online platform. Graders report being able to grade more accurately online with the ability to modify rubrics, but that grading on paper tends to result in more social interactions among graders.
AB - As computer science enrollments continue to surge, exam grading requires significant instructional resources. Online grading platforms have been developed in recent years and have been adopted at a number of institutions; however, their effectiveness compared with traditional grading on paper is not fully known. This study is the first in CS to compare online and paper grading. Comparing overall time to grade, including all factors, online grading doesn’t show a consistent advantage compared with paper grading. We observed that online grading is much faster during the actual grading phase, but some of this benefit is offset by the additional overhead prior to grading (e.g., scanning) for online grading. Examining student and grader preferences based on feedback, both groups show a strong preference for the online format, predominately due to the convenience of the online platform. Graders report being able to grade more accurately online with the ability to modify rubrics, but that grading on paper tends to result in more social interactions among graders.
KW - Assessment
KW - Exam Grading
KW - Online Grading System
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U2 - 10.1145/3304221.3319739
DO - 10.1145/3304221.3319739
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85070906820
T3 - Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE
SP - 99
EP - 104
BT - ITiCSE 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2019 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2019
Y2 - 15 July 2019 through 17 July 2019
ER -