Conference Session

NEE Technical Session 4 - Assessments: Grading and deadlines

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bob Schaffer, Mission College

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

sites like ChatGPT. In some courses, due totime demands, students are literally put in the position of having to decide between taking thelonger amount of time to learn the material and doing it quickly, which at time includes usingoutside (disallowed) resources to ‘earn’ a higher grade.The motivation for this paper comes from previous work that shared strategies to take pressure offof formative assessments by lowering the emphasis on getting the right answer. Some approacheshave been taken to motivate students to spend more time on formative assessments and then furtherenhance learning through reflection [1], [2], [3]. Other strategies [4], [5] lean on the benefit offlexible deadlines and regrading policies. It has been shown that struggling