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Semester Assessment--English 2000

I. Administrative Details for the Spring 2009 Assessment
  1. Finals. You should not give a final on Monday during finals week. English 1001 and 2000 teachers are exempted from the University Finals requirement.
  2. Grades. You will receive a score between 2-12 for each student. This score represents the combined score of two readers. You should use that score as a guideline for awarding a final grade (a student who gets a 2 through 5 should rarely, if ever, receive an A).
  3. Scoring.
  1. Monday 8:30-12:30: Calibrating and scoring
  2. Tuesday 8:30-12:30: Scoring
  3. Tuesday 8:30-???: Finish scoring
II. Timeline for Assessment
  1. Registration. If you are not teaching in a media classroom, reserve a computer classroom in the week before deadweek--the last week of classes. You will use that time to show students how to register for the online assessment.
  2. Deadweek (last week of classes): Cancel your classes for this week. Students will be working online.
    1. Friday, April 24 Articles to read will be available.
    2. Monday, April 27: Writing instructions will be available.
    3. Thursday, April 30: Students need to turn essays in electronically by 12 P.M. CST.
  3. Score Reports: You will receive reports of student scores by Thursday in the late afternoon. You will receive individual scores for students in each section, a mean score for each section, the mean score for all students, and a graph depicting the distribution of scores in your section. You should use the mean and distribution to guide your grading. If your students score higher than average, we would expect a higher than average grade distribution. If your students score lower than average, we would expect a lower than average distribution.
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