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May 26, 2025, Filed Under: ICPC

2024-25 ICPC 6th NAC

University of Central Florida:

November 15, 2024, Filed Under: ICPC

2024-25 ICPC SCUSA Regionals

University of Houston:

September 19, 2024, Filed Under: ICPC

2023-24 ICPC 48th World Finals

Astana, Kazakhstan:

May 27, 2024, Filed Under: ICPC

2023-24 ICPC 5th NAC

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April 19, 2024, Filed Under: ICPC

2022-23 ICPC 46th World Finals

Luxor, Egypt:

February 24, 2024, Filed Under: ICPC

2023-24 ICPC SCUSA Regionals

University of Houston:

May 29, 2023, Filed Under: ICPC

2022-23 ICPC 4th NAC

University of Central Florida:

February 26, 2021, Filed Under: Education

Specifications Grading

Yes, Virginia, There’s a Better Way to Grade by Linda Nilson.

Here’s her book: Specifications Grading.

Eric Mazur is using it to grade AP50: Project and Team-based Introductory to Physics at Harvard.

Felicia Tabing uses specifications grading at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Sal Khan of the Khan Academy describes a related idea, mastery learning, here:

February 22, 2020, Filed Under: ICPC

2019-20 ICPC 1st NAC

Georgia Tech:

January 15, 2020, Filed Under: Education

Perusall

In a followup to the last blog entry, through the work of Eric Mazur, I discovered a very interesting tool that he and his team have built: Perusall.

Persuall is a collaborative annotation tool for technical papers. It’s free.

You upload a PDF or a Web page and send the Persuall URL to your students.

Your students then read and electronically markup the article.

Perusall’s AI will then grade the annotations based on amount, distribution, and quality!

Furthermore, it will produce a confusion report, highlighting the three parts of the paper that have led to the most confusion together with the three annotations that convinced the AI of that conclusion.

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