Development and practical use of assignment report grading system on economics courses

Abstract

It is well known that an assignment report has positive effect for learning. However, a great deal of work is required to evaluate and give feedback to it, because it is difficult to reach agreement on grading standards among setters (instructors), graders (teaching assistants), and participants in the course (students). Therefore, in this research, we have been developing an evaluation support system of the assignment reports that is used by the teaching assistants. The system provides a report format that the students are able to follow to complete the report. The format allows the teaching assistants to insert their comments in a more visualized form that is easier to be understood by the students. This paper shows how the results generated from this correction support system are different from those generated by the conventional ways of report checking.