How does SWoRD Grade Students Writing and Reviewing Assignments?
First, SWoRD examines and weighs each reviewer’s evaluations through its own unique algorithm. This is used for grading each review activity. Also, this measure is used for computing each writer’s writing quality. It helps writers from being penalized by unqualified reviewers. Reviewing Grades. SWoRD evaluates the reliabilities of your ratings in terms of systemic differences, consistency, spread, and helpfulness. The reliability scores are summed, explaining 50% of review grades in each draft. The other 50% is helpfulness from the authors’ evaluation. Writing grades. SWoRD weighs each peer rating based on the reviewer’s grading reliability. First and second drafts are weighed equally. All SWoRD grades are curved, with a mean of 80 and a standard deviation of 10. Instructors are allowed to set their own curving criteria.
