Graded out
Saturday, May 12th, 2007 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robinturnerThis is what grading has brought us to.
I have now finished grading almost all of my first-year papers. It's been a fairly depressing experience, especially since my two best students uploaded papers that were well under the minimum length, so it looks like I won't be handing out any A's this semester. On the plus side, now all I have to do is finish writing up their grades for oral presentations, in-class participation, online participation ... and oh yes, there's a speaking exam next week. I really mean a speaking exam, not a viva: the main point is to find out how well (if at all) they can speak. Since I've been speaking with these students for sixteen weeks now, someone could have just asked me, but no, we have to give them an exam as well. It's something to do with "standards". (Hmm, I feel another entry in Dr. Solri's Language Clinic coming on.)
Ah, and I nearly forgot my dear MA students, who have given me a load of exam papers to read and are about to give me some final drafts of essays. To be fair to them, they don't actually want to give me these essays; in fact they did everything they could to avoid it, including begging their head of department (who is a different person from my head of department). I thought this was most altruistic of them.
I have now finished grading almost all of my first-year papers. It's been a fairly depressing experience, especially since my two best students uploaded papers that were well under the minimum length, so it looks like I won't be handing out any A's this semester. On the plus side, now all I have to do is finish writing up their grades for oral presentations, in-class participation, online participation ... and oh yes, there's a speaking exam next week. I really mean a speaking exam, not a viva: the main point is to find out how well (if at all) they can speak. Since I've been speaking with these students for sixteen weeks now, someone could have just asked me, but no, we have to give them an exam as well. It's something to do with "standards". (Hmm, I feel another entry in Dr. Solri's Language Clinic coming on.)
Ah, and I nearly forgot my dear MA students, who have given me a load of exam papers to read and are about to give me some final drafts of essays. To be fair to them, they don't actually want to give me these essays; in fact they did everything they could to avoid it, including begging their head of department (who is a different person from my head of department). I thought this was most altruistic of them.
