Yes, we also submit the grades directly ourselves and students have access to them as soon as we submit them. That was one thing that got me thinking of this question because our grades are now due on Monday at 5:00 when, not too long ago, they weren't due until Wednesday. Since that time and now, the procedure went from the Registrar's office entering the grades to us entering the grades directly. So it seemed a little strange that the Registrar's office said they needed the grades in earlier. But, given the responses I got, in the larger scheme of things, I am happy with the time I have. Thanks,
Rick Dr. Rick Froman Professor of Psychology John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 (479) 524-7295 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.jbu.edu/academics/sbs/faculty/rfroman.asp -----Original Message----- From: Marie Helweg-Larsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 8:41 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: Re: Time for final grades RESULTS Hi Rick Do I win a prize! Well, for accuracy's sake I should clarify that finals at Dickinson College ran from Monday Dec 12th at 9 AM to Sunday December 18th at 2 PM. There are finals on both Saturday Dec 17th and Sunday Dec 18th but not many (there are for classes scheduled at unusual/odd times). In the fall my final was at 2 PM on Tuesday Dec 13th. I think another interesting question is when the students actually get their grades. At Dickinson College students get access to each grade as soon as the professor submits them online (which might be before finals if no final exam is given). Anecdotally it seems that most professors here submit them before Christmas. I talked to the registrar at the college the other day and she said that lots of school still enter the grades manually (or with scantron forms), then have to double check them for accuracy and then mail them out to students. Thus, at some colleges in which grades are due in mid December students receive them by mail in early to mid January. So time from "last final" to "time grades are due" might be unrelated to the time from "grades are due" to "students receive grades". Marie Rick Froman wrote: >Well, the long-awaited results of my informal survey of the time faculty are >given to turn in final grades have finally arrived. As usual with such >projects, many arbitrary decisions were made to somewhat equitably >operationalize all the responses received. All responses were translated >into the common metric of hours including evenings and weekends. How faculty >used the time for sleeping, eating and other things was not determined. Most >of the times included a weekend but some of the shortest do not. If not >otherwise specified, I assumed that finals ended at 4:00 pm on the day >specified. Although it was possible for some faculty to get a head start if >their finals ended before the last day, I was only interested in the time >given from the end of the last final to the deadline for grades. > >Among our most rushed colleagues were Ken Steele and Joan Warmbold (she did >take the cake but will have to split it with Ken) with less than two days >(44 hours) from last final to grade deadline. Those with the most leisurely >pace were Marie Helweg-Larsen (if it is true that her last final was on a >Sunday) with 384 hours (she didn't have to turn hers in until TODAY) and Joe >Horton with 313 hours (also due today). > >The sample size was 20. The mean number of hours was 112. The median was >93.13. The distribution was bimodal at 42 and 72. The standard deviation was >85.77 and the range was 340. > >Thank you all for your participation in my survey. The complete results are >posted at: http://acadweb.jbu.edu/psychology/gradingtime.xls. You can see >your results in alphabetical order or ordered by time. You can also see your >percentile rank. Enjoy! > >Rick > >Dr. Rick Froman >Professor of Psychology >John Brown University >Siloam Springs, AR 72761 >(479) 524-7295 >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >web: http://www.jbu.edu/academics/sbs/faculty/rfroman.asp > > > > >--- >You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ********************************************* Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Dickinson College, P.O. Box 1773 Carlisle, PA 17013 Office: (717) 245-1562, Fax: (717) 245-1971 Webpage: www.dickinson.edu/~helwegm ********************************************* --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
