Consult with CIDR

CIDR consultants are available to meet with you as you consider your approaches to grading student work and giving students constructive feedback. See our Consulting pages on exploring teaching issues, designing courses and assignments, and collecting student feedback for more information.

To schedule a consultation, call 206-543-6588, or contact us by email to arrange an appointment.

Faculty resource on grading (FROG)
Maintained by the Office of Educational Assessment at the University of Washington; includes general guidelines, policies, and procedures developed at UW as well as aggregate statistics on grading by department and course level

University of Washington Grading system

Office of Educational Assessment - Grades (pdf)
Gillmore, G.M. (1995). Grades (OEA Rep. 95-N3). Seattle, WA: University of Washington, Office of Educational Assessment.

Brookhart, S. M. (1999). The art and science of classroom assessment: the missing part of pedagogy. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Reports, 27(1).

Davis, B. G. (1993). Grading Practices. In Tools for Teaching (chap. 32). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Speck, B. W. (2000). Grading students' classroom writing: issues and strategies. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Reports, 27(3).

Ohio State University, Office of Faculty and TA Development. (2001). Testing and Grading: Assessing Student Performance (pdf). In Teaching at the Ohio State University: A Handbook (pp. 75-99).

Maznevski, M. L. (1996, Spring). Grading Class Participation. Teaching concerns: A newsletter for faculty and teaching assistants (University of Virginia, Teaching Resource Center).

Stanford University, Center for Teaching and Learning. (1992). The Agony and the equity: Testing and grading (pdf). Speaking of Teaching (Stanford University Newsletter on Teaching), 4(2).

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Center for Teaching and Learning. (2001, January). Evaluation Issues. Teaching at Carolina.

University of North Texas, Technology Applications Center for Educator Development. (2001). Rubrics.

University of Oregon, Teaching Effectiveness Program. (2005, November). Effective Assessment.
Includes classroom assessment techniques, team learning, writing multiple-choice questions that demand critical thinking, creating successful group assignments, and online assessment

Davis, B. G. (1993). Tools for teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

McKeachie, W. J., & Svinicki, M. (2006). The ABC's of assigning grades. In W. J. McKeachie & M. Svinicki (Eds.), McKeachie's teaching tips: Strategies, research, and theory for college and university teachers (12th ed., pp. 123-138). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.