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Article that explains how an instructor is "Crowd-sourcing" the evaluation of his course. Students determine what grade level they are aiming for based on criteria and then having the other students in the course determining if the work is satisfactory or not. If all work completed is satisfactory, the student will receive the grade in the grade level they chose.

A university professor relates how teaching fourth-grade helped prepare her for her role in higher education.

"For the last decade or so, I've put my students' grades where my mouth is. Instead of just touting the importance of failing, I now tell students that if they want to earn an A, they must fail regularly throughout the course of the semester..."

Research poster on using a rubric to grade exams in a Calculus-based physics for science and engineering course that shows the level of specificity in the output possible with a rubric.