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Taking a break from preparing for our next blizzard . . .
A quick progress report on my Best Coffee in Town research project, which I designed to counter AI and combat grade inflation: students, or at least some of them, submitted the first of a series of scaffolded StoryMap assignments. While this assignment constitutes only 2.5 percent of the final course grade, it forms an integral part of the project as a whole. In other words, it lets students know where they stand and where they are headed.
Of the class’s 17 students, 10 chose to complete the assignment, with an average score of 9.5 out of 25 points. In letter grade terms, everyone in the class earned an F.
Will this change as the semester progresses? I don’t know.