{"pk":1886,"title":"Automated grading workflows for providing personalized feedback to open-ended data science assignments","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>Open-ended assignments - such as lab reports and semester-long projects - provide data science and statistics students with opportunities for developing communication, critical thinking, and creativity skills. However, providing grades and qualitative feedback to open-ended assignments can be very time consuming and difficult to do consistently across students. In this paper, we discuss the steps of a typical grading workflow and highlight which steps can be automated in an approach that we define as an automated grading workflow. We illustrate how gradetools, a new R package, implements this approach within RStudio to facilitate efficient and consistent grading while providing individualized feedback. We hope that this work will help the community of data science and statistics educators use gradetools as their grading workflow assistant or develop their own tools for assisting their grading workflow.</p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Data Science Education"},{"word":"Statistics Education"},{"word":"Efficient Grading"},{"word":"R"},{"word":"formative assessment"},{"word":"Fair Grading"}],"section":"Technology Innovations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8ck097s5","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Federica Zoe","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ricci","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Irvine","department":""},{"first_name":"Catalina","middle_name":"Mari","last_name":"Medina","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Irvine","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Mine","middle_name":"","last_name":"Dogucu","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Irvine","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2023-08-17T21:14:12-04:00","date_accepted":"2024-07-19T11:47:18.300000-04:00","date_published":"2024-07-19T03:00:00-04:00","render_galley":{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/tise/article/1886/galley/22137/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/tise/article/1886/galley/22137/download/"}]}