Procedures for Re-grade
A request for a re-grade is rarely granted because we do
not wish to encourage “quorum-shopping” for grades. Nonetheless, there are
circumstances in which a student feels strongly that his/her paper has been
graded unfairly.
Following is the procedure:
- Student meets with the grader, discussing why he/she
thinks the answer is deserving of additional points. (It is not allowable for
the student to simply declare that another student received a higher mark on a
substantially similar answer—either this semester or at other times. He/she
must show why HIS/HER paper deserves more points).
- If the grader and student do not agree at this point,
the student may then take the next step of asking the grader to photocopy the
exam and give it, without comment or communication, to another grader,
designated by the professor. At that instant, the student understands that
he/she has waived the earlier grade and will be receiving the new grade in its
place. (Over time, roughly half of the grades were higher and half lower so
the student is running a risk in requesting this procedure).
- The student must initiate the request for regrade no
longer than five (5) days calendar days after the exam was returned to the
student.
- The second grader reports the new grade to the initial
grader and returns the paper to the student. A second appeal is not provided
in the interest of discouraging quorum-shopping. Otherwise, every student
would wish to utilize the process on every exam. This procedure is designed
only to attempt to address egregious cases of unfairness in grading, not to
allow weaseling of extra points on a test or paper.
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