Motivational Tiered Assessment: A New Grading Approach for Motivating Information Systems Students

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Author(s)Serva, Mark
Author(s)Convery, Amanda
Author(s)Bullough, Amanda
Date Accessioned2022-05-25T19:55:06Z
Date Available2022-05-25T19:55:06Z
Publication Date2021-12-10
DescriptionThis article was originally published in Communications of the Association for Information Systems. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.04934en_US
AbstractAcademia places significant weight on grades as a metric to assess how much students have learned (Beatty, 2004). As a form of assessment, however, grades alone do not provide room for feedback and further student development. This paper offers a new direction to information systems (IS) programs to improve student motivation and better assess student learning—motivational tiered assessment (MTA)—that we propose overcomes these concerns. A tiered approach to learning allows students to choose how much effort and commitment they want to apply and assesses students’ competence based on the performance outcome they choose to achieve by meeting a specific set of pre-determined specifications and expectations. We first explain how MTA works. We then delineate how the new system differs from the points-based grading system, which academia commonly uses. We conclude by presenting three class examples that illustrate how one can apply MTA across an IS curriculum.en_US
CitationServa, M., Convery, A., & Bullough, A. (2021). Motivational Tiered Assessment: A New Grading Approach for Motivating Information Systems Students. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 49, pp-pp. https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.04934en_US
ISSN1529-3181
URLhttps://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/30907
Languageen_USen_US
PublisherCommunications of the Association for Information Systemsen_US
Keywordsmotivationen_US
Keywordsassessmenten_US
Keywordsgradingen_US
Keywordsspecificationsen_US
TitleMotivational Tiered Assessment: A New Grading Approach for Motivating Information Systems Studentsen_US
TypeArticleen_US
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