Research Explores Fair Grading in Large CS Classes  

A team of School of Computing Instruction (SCI) lecturers is implementing grading rubrics to help ensure fair grading in large computer science (CS) classes.  

Grading coding assignments for these courses presents a unique set of challenges. The subjective nature of evaluating code correctness can lead to inconsistencies and biases among graders. SCI Lecturers Nimisha Roy and Rodrigo Borela Valente researched these challenges. They studied the effects of introducing…