Adventures with Grading Contracts in Operations Classes: A Preliminary Investigation

Stewart Liu (), Theresa M. Roeder () and Susan C. Cholette ()
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Stewart Liu: Department of Decision Sciences, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132
Theresa M. Roeder: Department of Decision Sciences, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132
Susan C. Cholette: Department of Decision Sciences, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132

INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2025, vol. 25, issue 3, 219-231

Abstract: Statewide initiatives and the COVID-19 pandemic have caused us to re-examine how we deliver and evaluate students in our courses. In this paper, we discuss our experiences using grading contracts, which are commonly used in writing programs but virtually unknown in fields like operations research. We found strong undergraduate student support for the contract and no statistically significant differences in final course grades. We urge our fellow educators to consider alternatives to the traditional grading schemes that strongly favor in-class exams in evaluating students.

Keywords: teaching management science; active learning; assessment; pedagogical research; teaching production/operations management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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