Besides marking and evaluating using a method I was trained to use at work, I have very little experience evaluating a student's performance. Recently, for another course, we had to evaluate our peers assignments and many students voiced that they found it very challenging because they were worried about being too harsh or picky, or because they didn't want to hurt the person's feelings.
It's difficult to know what kind of feedback will be helpful to the student in my opinion. In Mamchur's 'Six Traps of Evaluation to Avoid,' she mentions more time should be spent making effective comments instead of focusing on scoring. It would have been helpful if she gave some examples of what kinds of things would be helpful for the student to have as feedback because like the example I gave, it's challenging to figure that out.
What comes to mind when Mamchur talks about ignoring individual differences, is an example I have of a teacher in high school. He and another English teacher refused to give interim reports that had grade percentages on them. The only grade a student would receive was a rough score on their essays and the final grade at the end. It might be difficult to accept this as a form of evaluation if you are one of those students who need to know their precise marks, but what was great about this method was that the final grade would not depend on the total of the assignments, but on how much the student improved. If a student did poorly on their first and second essay, but did really well on their last essay, they would automatically receive a higher grade or a grade the teacher "thought they deserved" based on their improvement. Most students ended up with higher grades in the end, so they were happy with the method of evaluation/grading.
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