FERPA allows students to evaluate each other's work.  Our own local
policies go well beyond FERPA requirements.


Education records are currently defined as records that are directly
related to a ³student² and maintained by an ³educational agency or
institution²
or by a party acting for the agency or institution.
 
(Owasso Indep. Sch.
Dist. No. I-011 v. Falvo, 534 U.S. 426 (2002)).
 
grades on students¹ papers
are not ³maintained² under the definition of ³education records² and,
therefore, would not be covered under FERPA at least until the teacher has
collected and recorded them in the teacher¹s grade book, a decision
consistent
with the Department¹s longstanding position on peer-grading. The Court
rejected
assertions that students were ³parties acting for² an institution when they
scored each other¹s work and that the student papers were, at that stage,
³maintained² within the meaning of FERPA.






Dr. J. Nepkie
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor
Professor of Music and Music Industry
Fine Arts 145
State University College
Oneonta, NY 13820
tele: (607) 436 3425
fax:   607 436 2718
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On 2/10/11 1:11 PM, "Helser, Terry   ([log in to unmask])"
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>All interested parties,
>  Can students evaluate other student's performances like team oral
>reports?
>The Faculty Handbook, which I know may not have any/full force of
>law/policy, says:
>"Students and Grading
>Students (including work study students, teaching assistants, etc.) must
>not
>be permitted to participate in any form of grading. This includes, but is
>not limited to, evaluating and/or assigning grades, posting grades,
>handling
>grade change forms or grade sheets." p. 75
>I have lab teams fill out a rubric evaluating other teams' reports and use
>them with my own to arrive at a grade for each student. I feel this is a
>valid and useful experience for all of them, but particularly for
>education
>majors. How do prospective teachers learn to evaluate their students
>without
>training and practice in education courses? Am I missing something? Seems
>like a catch 22, if the FH is taken literally.
>Cheers!
>Terry