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Grade allocation advice!
Experience ranking people from my (now) day job.
1. One person put the list in order, using some data. (Mock scores, average test scores, or football stat)
2. Share that list with the team. Ask people to highlight anyone they feel is too high or too low.
Experience ranking people from my (now) day job.
1. One person put the list in order, using some data. (Mock scores, average test scores, or football stat)
2. Share that list with the team. Ask people to highlight anyone they feel is too high or too low.
3. Arrange a meeting (online is better than face-to-face for this anyway IME as everyone can have their own data/files/loads of space).
4. One person is in charge of the meeting. They go through each person top to bottom (no jumping around). Most of the people you'll say
4. One person is in charge of the meeting. They go through each person top to bottom (no jumping around). Most of the people you'll say
their name, ask if anyone wants to move them, no one will say anything, then you move on. But it's important you open EVERY name to the floor. This stops it becoming about personalities and who shouts loudest.
5. If someone wants to move someone up or down they state their case.
5. If someone wants to move someone up or down they state their case.
and everyone listens without interruption. Go round and check that everyone who has anything to say gets to say it.
6. Keep going down the list, shuffling people up and down it as you go.
You might need to break the meeting into chunks.
7. It can help to have tiers to put people
6. Keep going down the list, shuffling people up and down it as you go.
You might need to break the meeting into chunks.
7. It can help to have tiers to put people
in, and then sort within that after.
8. After you've been through the list the person in charge should edit it with the agreed changes, and resend it to everyone.
9. Everyone reviews it again, and again highlights any changes.
10. Another meeting to review. This one is much
8. After you've been through the list the person in charge should edit it with the agreed changes, and resend it to everyone.
9. Everyone reviews it again, and again highlights any changes.
10. Another meeting to review. This one is much
shorter, as far less movements needed.
11. This method is WAY easier than starting with a blank piece of paper in a meeting. It's much easier to see who looks out of place from an initial list than it is to put 90 people in the correct place from scratch.
12. This method has
11. This method is WAY easier than starting with a blank piece of paper in a meeting. It's much easier to see who looks out of place from an initial list than it is to put 90 people in the correct place from scratch.
12. This method has
worked for me when not everyone knows all the candidates on the list (it's rare that all my scouts will have a player initially), but it's helpful for everyone to be involved to keep people in check, and so that everyone ends up with the same knowledge, and a sense of owning the
list.
13. It needs to be made REALLY CLEAR that people only get moved up and down during the meetings. No lobbying before/after. Stick to this, or the whole process is pointless.
14. Your mileage may vary etc, but this is my process that's evolved over years of ranking
13. It needs to be made REALLY CLEAR that people only get moved up and down during the meetings. No lobbying before/after. Stick to this, or the whole process is pointless.
14. Your mileage may vary etc, but this is my process that's evolved over years of ranking
footballers to create a target list. Working with a range of data, and lots of individual opinions of those players, and this is IMO the best way of combining those things to come to a consensus.
Please also give special consideration to the quiet kids.
I often advocate for the players people overlook. You know the ones who still wear black boots and don't do any tricks. Never man of the match, never awful. Just quietly go about their job and let others take the limelight
I often advocate for the players people overlook. You know the ones who still wear black boots and don't do any tricks. Never man of the match, never awful. Just quietly go about their job and let others take the limelight
Please try and think about those kids in your classes. They'd have been grafting at home revising, and would have overtaken some of the loud kids who shout out answers in class.
