Michael Sylvester wrote:
> Do you care to share some of the unusual grading methods
> (fact or fiction) you have heard of? One I have heard of but
> unable to verify is that of the prof who stands on the top of
> the stairs and throws all the term papers up in the
> air.Apparently the heavier papers will navigate to the bottom
> steps and those will be assigned A s.
I use a rather unusual method, Michael. I read the paper and
grade it on content & presentation. Radical, but it seems to work.
> And while on this subject (free associating),do you have a
> tendency to give papers that are typed higher grades than
> handwritten ones?
Sure--if it's not handwritten it has a chance to get a higher
grade than a 0.0!
Seriously, there is simply no reason to _accept_ a term paper
that is handwritten. We're college instructors, not grammar school
teachers. In the workplace a report that was handwritten wouldn't be
accepted, and there's no reason one should be accepted in academia
either.
Rick
PS--Anyone know when the three post-per-day-per-user rule went into
effect? I know the list used to have a total post limit--but not an
individual one. The current rule seems as though it will lead to very
long messages in which several other posts are quoted back and responded
to at once to avoid being "locked out." It would seem that it would be a
lot more productive to allow more, shorter, posts (which often answer a
question or add a comment/resource/etc.) instead.
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Rick Adams
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Jackson Community College
Jackson, Michigan
". . . and the only measure of your worth and your deeds will be the
love you leave behind when you're gone." --Fred Small
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