A comparative study of a checkmark grading system and a traditional grading system in business communications
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Linda Thompson Weavil (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Dale L. Brubaker
Abstract: This study was designed to investigate whether business communications students whose writing assignments were graded by a checkmark grading system would differ significantly in their performance on a specific writing test and their attitudes toward learning, teaching, the business communications course, and themselves from students whose writing assignments were graded by traditional letter grades of A, B, C, D, F. It was hypothesized that there would be no significant difference (from pretest to posttest) in the change in students' performance scores when comparing checkmark grading and traditional grading groups. Four other hypotheses proposed that there would be no significant difference in the change in students' attitudes when comparing checkmark grading and traditional grading groups. Seventy-one students in four college classes of business communications participated in the study. In the fall semester of the academic year 1978-79, one class at Elon College and one class at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro were selected as the group to receive checkmark grading. In the spring semester of the same year, one class from each college was designated as the group to receive traditional grading. The same instructors in each college taught the classes both fall and spring.
A comparative study of a checkmark grading system and a traditional grading system in business communications
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- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 1979
- Subjects
- Business communication $x Study and teaching (Higher) $z North Carolina
- Grading and marking (Students)