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Professor Joanna Klukowska first heard about Gradescope at the SIGCSE 2016 conference. With 120 exams waiting to be graded at home and other users telling her “Gradescope changed their life,” Professor Joanna Klukowska found the software too tempting to dismiss.
Before Gradescope she adds, “I graded on paper. I always graded one question at a time for all the exams, because I wanted to be able to try to enforce consistency. But again, if it takes me an hour or two to grade question one, I think there was a significant difference between how the first people were graded versus how the last few of those questions were graded.”
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Klukowska says grading consistency and efficiency has improved with Gradescope, which she uses in all her courses. “I used to laugh that I need a rubber stamp that has a particular error written on it so I can just stamp every single exam instead of writing it every single time. And Gradescope basically is this rubber stamp with all the possible versions of the comment that I need to make.”
In addition to exam-grading, Klukowsa was curious about using Gradescope to grade assignments. In her data structures class, for example, she has traditionally had several undergraduate students assist in grading assignments. However, she says, “It was always a huge challenge to get them to grade consistently. I would end up having huge differences in the average grade assigned by one grader versus another grader.”
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Klukowska says grading consistency and efficiency has improved with Gradescope, which she uses in all her courses. “I used to laugh that I need a rubber stamp that has a particular error written on it so I can just stamp every single exam instead of writing it every single time. And Gradescope basically is this rubber stamp with all the possible versions of the comment that I need to make.”
In addition to exam-grading, Klukowsa was curious about using Gradescope to grade assignments. In her data structures class, for example, she has traditionally had several undergraduate students assist in grading assignments. However, she says, “It was always a huge challenge to get them to grade consistently. I would end up having huge differences in the average grade assigned by one grader versus another grader.”
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