It could have been one of those “your name is worth 2%” and then the other questions are weighted at 98% total. Those were always fun, I never remembered to write my name at the top.
Partial credit on a math problem is petty? I don’t think so. Even if you got the answer wrong, maybe you set it up correctly, then just missed a step somewhere or flipped a sign, or whatever. That seems perfectly reasonable to me.
No, I agree partial credit can be useful in many cases.
Here is why I think it is petty in this case:
assume grading is a tool to communicate degree of mastery of some concepts that are tested
assume it is better to test concepts frequently, provide feedback early, and move forward based on those results – then there shouldn’t be a scenario where there are TONS of concepts being tested (or at least not for a quiz)
if there are only a few concepts being tested, then does 2% really indicate any meaningful distinction of knowledge attained? Or is it as good as 0%? (I suppose the latter)
grading takes work. This teacher had to look hard to find something that they felt indicated a few points, but that effort has little benefit to the student – who would likely benefit more from some remediation efforts than the teacher going through a quiz with a fine tooth comb.
the teacher using this quiz to form their next lesson understood the kid needed remediation well before finding +2% partial credit, the kid’s grade is effectively the same as 0% and has no return on the teachers time investment to find this +2%, the kids morale is effectively the same as 0%, except worse now because there is an ongoing joke among their peers about the quiz. So all of the time the teacher spent grading this quiz has resulted in a worse outcome than if they just said, “wow this is bad, 0%, let’s do tutoring” and moved on.
When I was in highschool 5% of math tests was in the presentation of the math, lining up your equal signs, not using × or ÷, putting units where appropriate and stuff like that.
It could have been one of those “your name is worth 2%” and then the other questions are weighted at 98% total. Those were always fun, I never remembered to write my name at the top.
Yeah or maybe like 10 questions and they got partial credit on one of them. Still I agree with parent comment this is bullshit.
Indeed, that’s just an extra level of petty during grading at that point.
Partial credit on a math problem is petty? I don’t think so. Even if you got the answer wrong, maybe you set it up correctly, then just missed a step somewhere or flipped a sign, or whatever. That seems perfectly reasonable to me.
No, I agree partial credit can be useful in many cases.
Here is why I think it is petty in this case:
Maybe they maintain a total of all quizzes points, which becomes a portion of your final grade. In which case, you might actually want that 2%.
When I was in highschool 5% of math tests was in the presentation of the math, lining up your equal signs, not using × or ÷, putting units where appropriate and stuff like that.