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

[Chris Evans]

different things work for different people, personally I wouldnt be submitting a REC take unless I felt pretty comfortable with the lesson as a whole in the first place, as mentioned, if I was just looking for feedback to improve on it then I`d be putting it into uploads or the relevant Instructors board for feedback on how I can get this lesson good enough.

the pass mark of 7.5 (or 75% as it was before) to me is pretty low and well achievable if the work on the lesson is put in, if it didnt hit the marks then I`d want to go back and improve on what let me down, thats the whole point of the grading, nothing has gone to waste.

In my opinion one of the biggest problem with the grading before was that "effort" put in was far too much of a major factor in the scoring, I would score everyone 100% for anything that they attempt, record and submit and I think the Instructors felt the same way too, the scoring now is an overall mark for the take and a little more realisitic of the performance overall, the comments given by the Instructors still follow the same criteria as they did before with pointers on how it could have been even better.

The REC program shouldnt just be looked at as a bulk upload of half attempts in the hope that they pass and get counted towards your overall score on the board, but a showcase of the hard work you`ve put in.

I can hold my hand up and say that the lessons I submitted for the REC I now no longer work on, and I think that would be the case (just guessing here) for most of the others, putting my neck out here there perhaps shouldnt have been some that passed, yet they did and would have been pushed to one side and marked as "completed", is that really any good for someones development? I`m not so sure, but going back to my opening line, different things work for different people

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