The COVID-19 pandemic had unprecedented impacts, both directly and indirectly, on
student populations across the UK. As teaching has returned to 'normal', in person exams …

Standards-based grading (SBG) tightly links student assessment to course learning
objectives, providing students with meaningful feedback. A well-designed SBG system …

Over the past several years, increasing effort has been invested interrogating the very
structure of assessment in higher education. In addition to a rising awareness of the mental …

Grading of student work is the primary practice for evaluating students' learning and
performance in a course. As such, the data generated from grading can be a powerful …

Standards-based grading offers several advantages over the traditional norm-referenced
approach. These advantages include improving the quality of feedback provided to the …

The use of student-centered instructional strategies is a common practice in engineering
classes. Instructors often use such strategies to promote greater learning outcomes and …

Discipline-based education research (DBER) is research activity aimed at investigating
“learning and teaching in a discipline from a perspective that reflects the discipline's …

Grades are intended to communicate achievement associated with a learning experience.
Engineering educators in higher education often default to a particular grading approach …

While grading and assessment has long been a discussion point among educational
researchers, there has been a recent resurgence in concern over the efficacy of traditional …

Recent years have seen a dramatic growth in the number of first-year engineering programs.
With that growth has come a broad discussion of what exactly that experience should entail …