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by professoretc 1710 days ago
The solution I use is to allow later grades to replace earlier grades. This works best if you can assign each graded item to a specific "topic", so that you can say "your grade on each topic is the highest grade you receive throughout the quarter" or whatever. Then at the end, you calculate their final course grade from some combination of the topic grades. (The easiest way is just to set a pass/fail threshold for each topic and then base their final grade on the number of topics passed.) You can adjust the ratio of replacement to averaging so that you're not totally throwing out earlier results, if you want to do that.
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That’s a neat approach. I like it.
I got the idea for this system from Nilson and Stanny's Specifications Grading:

https://styluspub.presswarehouse.com/browse/book/97816203624...