Rec Announcement, Rules and Grading Process Options

[skennington]

Hi GMC,

Another REC announcement here updating you on the changes that will be taking place. We feel and hope you will find these changes for the better.

First off, we would like you to keep doing as you are with uploads and detailing you equipment but we would also like you to create a poll with numbers 1-10. No need for anything other than numbers.

This poll is going to be used by the Instructors for grading and scoring purposes. No longer will they be looking for only 4 or 5 areas of your playing, just an overall impression of how well you captured the lesson. (1 being not even close to 10 being spot on)

Once you have opened your topic, with a poll, I will then move the thread to a top secret location within GMC where only Instructors will have access. As the Instructors grade the lessons (min 3) I will average them and move them back to the REC board where you will see your score and be able to read the comments.

We think that by doing things this way, one certain area such as posture will not hurt a well played attempt and by the same token, great tone does not influence a poorly played attempt.

I hope all of you will like this new process as we will keep tweaking it til its perfect!

For those that have lessons awaiting grades now, I will began moving them shortly and adding the poll so need to do anything with those.

Cheers,
Steve (skennington)

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This post has been edited by skennington: Sep 30 2009, 12:20 AM

[Keilnoth]

If I understand well, the scoreboard don't show any average of your score at all. It only shows an average of the level of the lessons you passed. So we don't really care if the average to pass is 75% or 65% if it's easy to get a 10 or hard to get an 8. In fact, it could be a binary system pass / fail and it would be exactly the same than today.

If the scoreboard was based on an average of the rates you got and if every takes are considered even if failed then that would work.

But you are right wrk, the only difference is that we don't really know what was good or bad anymore except by reading the comments which are always good and useful. But the rate doesn't mean anything anymore.

With the old system, all the aspects of your playing was covered. Now, it's not the case anymore.

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This post has been edited by Keilnoth: Oct 1 2009, 12:34 PM

[skennington]

If I understand well, the scoreboard don't show any average of your score at all. It only shows an average of the level of the lessons you passed. So we don't really care if the average to pass is 75% or 65% if it's easy to get a 10 or hard to get an 8. In fact, it could be a binary system pass / fail and it would be exactly the same than today.

If the scoreboard was based on an average of the rates you got and if every takes are considered even if failed then that would work.

But you are right wrk, the only difference is that we don't really know what was good or bad anymore except by reading the comments which are always good and useful. But the rate doesn't mean anything anymore.

With the old system, all the aspects of your playing was covered. Now, it's not the case anymore.

You are correct, the scoreboard only reflects the level of difficulty of the "passed" lesson attempts. A failed attempt does not go against you in any way and you are encouraged to try it again.

The average is basically the same, you need at least a 7.5 to pass as opposed to a 75% from the previous method.

The new method opens it up for the Instructor to grade you however he/she feels for the lesson attempt. The feedback on your playing will still be given and can be expanded outside of the 5 areas previously used.

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