Keyboarding

[MsDonna]

Ds is using Mavis Beacon to earn a Keyboarding credit. I'm unsure of how to grade him. Any suggestions? How many wpm to earn an A? B?

TIA

[vicki]

Ds is using Mavis Beacon to earn a Keyboarding credit. I'm unsure of how to grade him. Any suggestions? How many wpm to earn an A? B?

TIA

This may help--after you take the test it gives you an idea where you placed (slow, average, fast). You decide what grades, though I'd probably say 'slow' was D, 'average' was a C/B, and 'fast' was an A/B.

http://www.typingtest.com/

[JOY]

I just use Pass/Fail for keyboarding...and if they have improved over the time they took the class then they pass.

[michelle]

I like Joy's pass/fail option.

[vicki]

Unless he does really well. Then give him an A.

[MsDonna]

I'll have to give him a grade as this is his senior year and it will need to go on his transcript other than that I wouldn't full with grades.

[vicki]

I'll have to give him a grade as this is his senior year and it will need to go on his transcript other than that I wouldn't full with grades.

Well, I'd use that test and see where he falls in it. Take a screenshot of the test after he's taken it, print it up, and that should be suffice.

[TheKara]

My local department of labor has a typing test available (for jobs that require a certain wpm score), I wonder if when he finishes the course you could take him to your DOL and ask if he could take the test....the one I took compared my score to the national average, etc...that could help in grading, as well as if he looks for a job through the DOL he will have already taken that test

[Stacy]

I used a rubric for this same course. I'm at work and can't look up how I typed it, what requirements I used, etc.

By using the rubric format, I was better-equipped to issue a grade, rather than a pass/fail option.

Here is a list of pages that talk about rubrics:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sour ... l0.3.3l6l0