Grading 2.0: Evaluation in the Digital Age

http://www.hastac.org/forums/hastac-scholars-discussions/grading-20-evaluation-digital-age

Very interesting consideration of how we may need to re-think grading and assessment practices.

I'm particularly interested in how Learning Portfolios could replace letter grades for competitive screening functions such as scholarships, graduate school applications, and job application.

As a teacher, I think it would be much more fulfilling to write up a strengths/weaknesses blurb and add it to the student's portfolio at the end of the term based on the performance of the student rather than give a letter or point grade. Would this be any more time consuming than punching in quiz grade numbers to arrive at some kind of number? Perhaps a little, but it would drive us to really assess the value of what the student has done and identify where more work is needed.

One example I've started to look at is the Learning Record. I need some more time to figure out how this exactly works and will try to get back to it.
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~Syverson/olr/intro.html