There is a longstanding debate about whether traditional grading—letter grades based on a student’s content knowledge, classroom behavior, and extra credit—appropriately measures student success.

This section is for creating an extra credit assignment (i.e. an optional assignment students can complete to earn extra points). With the Bonus setting, points will only be added to the numerator of ...

Instructors may choose to create Extra Credit items in their Lyceum Gradebook. Extra Credit items can only be added to categories using the Simple Weighted Mean aggregation; the default in Lyceum is ...

Students and faculty have differing views on extra-credit opportunities, but whether or not teachers put extra-credit assignments on the grade bargaining table for their students is a matter of ...

Last week, when I returned the latest batch of assignments in a short story class, the inevitable happened. A student approached me and asked, “Can I do extra credit?” This request flummoxes me more ...

A team of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, San Diego have discovered positive uses for AI and extra credit assignments to help improve ...

To offer students extra credit—that is the question. In fact, it’s an age-old question, one that some systems, liked standards-based grading, claim to answer by completely eliminating it. Personally, ...

In our recent article, Ethical Teaching in the Classroom and Beyond, Doug Woody and I present the following case: Extra credit. In an introductory psychology class the professor, Dr. Hamilton, decides ...