Regrading Papers

Regrading Overview

If a student wants a regrade on a paper assignment, they must send an e-mail (with the appropriate format from the FAQ page) to 109help@physics.tamu.edu. The student should have all the necessary information in the e-mail, but it can all be found on Peerceptiv once the assignment is closed. New TAs may do the regrade and send it to 109help for feedback from the others, but once you’ve had some experience, you will send the regrade directly back to the student in an e-mail (cc’ing 109 help for our records) and leave a review in Peerceptiv (as described below).

1. First of all get their text from Peerceptiv and then go to the rubric.
2. Grade the paper for each rubric point (as the students would)
3. Make comments for each point penalty that you mark.
4. Make a list of the Peer Reviewers’ grades for the student (if available/relevant), putting the score, and showing which rubric sections got high scores and which were low.
5. Finally you need to write a paragraph summarizing the grade, your comments, and the other reviewer’s scores; based on everything you’ve said about the questions.
6. Email all these things back to the student and 109help. As always be positive and helpful. (Note: In some cases we may not want to e-mail the student back immediately. It is still good to go through the regrading process and create such an e-mail so we have a record of any changes.)

Click here for an example Paper 1

 

The idea is for you to determine if the student is right and deserves a better grade, and which grade it will be. Furthermore you will make a brief ‘analysis’ of what it is that the Peer Reviews say the student deserves, and the self-assessment. Since you are making an overall revision of the assignment you need to show all this information in a clear way, that way it is clear to the student what his/her grade is, and where he/she can improve.

1. Summary (goes first since it tells in a readable manner all the detailed information that follows)
2. TA Review (with comments explaining why points lost)
3. Peer Reviews (if relevant)

(See the example here again for an example) Note that sometimes we will do a regrade ourselves without being asked (e.g. Dave sees that someone submitted late or had wildly differing reviews). You might not always send the regrade to the student immediately.

1. First, make sure in the assignment settings page that “Teacher’s Rating is” is set to “Overrides student grades.” To enter the actual regrade, you’re going to create your own review, just like the students do. In Peerceptiv, go to Students → Details (of the student whose paper you’re regrading) → (select the assignment) → Enter Review Now. You can also go to Data → Stats → (select assignment) → View Detailed Stats → and Enter Teacher Review for any of the “Conflicting rating documents”. There’s a box before all the rubric criteria for comments. At the time of this writing, I’m not sure if that’s the best place to put the full writeup of the regrade, but make notes about whatever you penalized at least. By creating our own review set to override the other scores, we can both set the actual paper’s grade and also affect the reviewers’ accuracy scores (instructor reviews are always considered 100% accurate in Peerceptiv). A direct score override might be able to achieve the former, but it wouldn’t identify inaccurate reviewers.
2. Then send student an email about their regrades. Here is an example:

   Hi, We took a look and agree your were under-graded. Your grade on Peerceptiv has been updated. TA notes: [Put your regrade here with the format in “About the Format”]

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If you discover while regrading that the student was in fact over-graded, just send them an e-mail saying that you’ll be leaving the grade as-is.