How should clicker questions be graded?
Most instructors make clicker questions a portion of the total course grade; between a few % and 15% is common, although a wide variety of approaches are used. The two most common grading schemes used are giving equal credit for correct and incorrect responses (participation only), and giving greater credit for correct than incorrect responses. Some pros and cons to these grading approaches are listed below. Another approach is to give participation credit only most of the time, but occasionally grade individual questions for correct responses. There is no consensus view recommended by research or convention, but our anecdotal observations lead us to lean towards this latter grading policy of always giving credit for participation and occasionally giving additional reward for the correct answer. Giving credit only for correct responses is not recommended as it distorts the discussion and student response strategies in undesirable directions, and it limits the type of question that can
