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An article from The Chronicle of Higher Education (July 30, 2009). Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Duke-Professor-Uses/7538 on August 3, 2009.

Identify Unknown Terms 'Crowdsourcing ,' the notion of using the wisdom of the crowd for sites like Wikipedia, could be making its way into academe as a grading method that holds students more accountable.   A professor at Duke University plans to test just that this fall, when she leaves the evaluation of class assignments up to her students, using crowdsourcing to make students responsible for grading each other.    Learning is more than earning an A says Cathy N. Davidson, the professor, who recently returned to teach English and interdisciplinary studies after eight years in administration. But students don't always see it that way. Vying for an A by trying to figure out what a professor wants or through the least amount of work has made the traditional grading scale superficial, she says.  "

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