Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Task 2: Individual Project

To begin the project, I have been researching different markbook systems and the different features they have to offer.
These include:
*Ability to grade students
*Scale scores
*Print graphs of student progress
*Easy calculation of complex student assessment tasks through simple selection of all common statistical functions.
*statistically accurate ways of combining, weighting and transforming student test and assignment marks quickly and easily
*scaling options such as respecifying the mean and standard deviation of a test, scaling to a new maximum mark, moderating a set of tests based on a common test, multilinear mapping and assigning of Alphabetical Grades (based on user defined cutoffs)
*include detailed manual