Comment by sethammons
20 days ago
The best homework system i ever experienced was high school calculus.
4 points per assignment. Pass the assignment to a peer for grading. If they wrote down the problem and attempted it: 3 points. One more point if the logic and steps were followable, even if wrong.
The answers were in the back of the book. The homework grade should reflect attempts and practice, not mastery as that is what exams are for.
My high school calculus teacher would assign homework every day, anywhere from a couple problems, to a dozen or more, depending on the work. 5 points for the homework, no matter how many problems. One point off for each problem missed. Sometimes broken down by steps if it was very-few problems (but still with way more opportunities to lose points, than there were points)
Assigned every. Fucking. Night.
You could spend two hours on it, get a majority of the problems right and get extremely close on the rest but make some identical mistake on each of them at the end, and still get not just an F, but a zero. It could be an insanely large assignment, and also you have other classes and other things happening in life, so you only get half of it done because these were not small assignments, but at least get all the ones you did right. Zero points, because you missed 5 or more.
To say it was demoralizing would be an understatement.