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« Reply #405 on: November 20, 2009, 09:02:09 PM » |
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Only 5 more papers to go for one of my classes! Only 5! But I am dragging...I really want to open a bottle of wine NOW, but I feel like those last 5 students might get better grades than they earned...
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« Reply #406 on: November 20, 2009, 09:51:52 PM » |
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Yeah, it was 9pm when I posted. But the papers are done, grades are recorded, and the wine is open! No more grading for me tonight. :)
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« Reply #407 on: November 21, 2009, 10:14:43 AM » |
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I absolutely HAVE to get these exams graded before we leave on break. I'm so late with it it's shameful (it's a grad elective class, so I'll contend that I have a lot of flexibility, but it's getting beyond the elastic limit). I'm playing with fire because our teaching evals are due the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, and it's not fair for me to have them do the evaluation without having their exam in hand, so I'm betting that the joy of Thanksgiving and a four day break will cool off anyone angered about their scores.
The problem is that the problem statements had some ambiguities in them - ones I didn't see coming - and grading is going to be a pain if I don't allow this to dent their scores.
Ugh.
On top of that it looks like two of them (take-home exam) have very similar solutions.
One is my grad student.
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"Interestingly, many fans find that Seger looks increasingly more like the cereal brand character Captain Crunch as he ages." - Wikipedia entry on Bob Seger.
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« Reply #408 on: November 21, 2009, 10:33:46 AM » |
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I have a small senoir capstone class full of majors. For the most part, they are motivated and intelligent. I'm fairly proud of the paper assignment because it allowed them to really dig into a topic that they are interested in and encouraged them to write in a clear, concise way.
In other words, even though I have a stack of longish papers, there are only ten of them and they should be pretty good. I've even kind of looking forward to reading them!
Except the first one on the stack is from the one student who is almost failing the class. Hu turned in the supporting materials (they had to turn in the articles they cited)... but no paper. Not even a rough draft, which they also had to turn in. That's not terribly surprising, since hu was absent on the day they did the peer review assignment.
Sigh. How much do you want to bet that this student does not even has a paper? My guess is that hu just wants the 10 points hu will get on the assignment for turning in the articles.
Ah well. On to the second paper in the stack...
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Secretweapon (2008) OMGacademe, you are obviously the OMG expert.
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« Reply #409 on: November 21, 2009, 02:08:16 PM » |
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OK, I am going to sit down and reap contributions for the favorite student sentences thread.
I see I gave up with "A narrator who narrates the story" last time, and it turned out to be a postmodern hit on that thread.
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I like money. I like to buy stuff and experiences with money.
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« Reply #410 on: November 21, 2009, 08:02:06 PM » |
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And here is my first bad case of plagiarism of the day. It's from a returning student who works hard but is not generally as "on the ball" as the other students. Arg.
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« Reply #411 on: November 21, 2009, 08:08:21 PM » |
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Arrgh. 120 papers to finish by the end of Thanksgiving break. And the parents are visiting, and spouse needs help with a home improvement project. I want school to start again because it is less stressful.
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« Reply #412 on: November 21, 2009, 08:15:14 PM » |
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I assigned my first exam grade in the 'teens. As in 13. I don't believe I've ever had a student earn a 13 before.
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I recommend bourbon and bonbons for that.
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« Reply #413 on: November 21, 2009, 09:42:26 PM » |
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I assigned my first exam grade in the 'teens. As in 13. I don't believe I've ever had a student earn a 13 before.
Oh, that takes some skill! How can s/he manage to not BS his/her way at least to a 30? I will never understand those skills. (I had someone once get below a 13% for a final grade. It was an accomplishment.) So, I'm making slow molasses-like progress and only on the little things that are taking hours longer than they should because the students can't be bothered to follow submission directions, assignment directions, etc. It is so much easier to grade when everything is submitted correctly and formatted correctly and actually answers the questions that were asked. How is everyone else doing? Can I share some ice cream? two sets of projects from last weekend two sets of quizzes from this weekthe papers that came in todaythe papers that came in yesterdaythe stragglers from last weekthe classwork from todayand whatever else I'm forgetting is in that stack - oh yeah, forgot nasty stuff. Those are going to take a while Forgot a set of quizzes, too. |
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« Reply #414 on: November 21, 2009, 10:47:28 PM » |
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Well, I'm impressed by a new grade range in the wad I'm chewing through this weekend.
The high so far: 96. The low so far: 1. Yup, more than 90 points difference between the high and low grades. Good thing I spent all that time going over the sample test questions. Good thing I made the real test look just like the sample test except for different numbers. Really, what is it with these people?
I have a couple, boyfriend-girlfriend, who got the same version of the test and made identical mistakes. I'm deeply suspicious, but I could understand the mistakes (both involve taking a number that only applied to the sample test and applying it to a problem in the real test that used different numbers). Not a smoking gun. Still, I'll separate them for the final exam.
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Unfortunately, I think conjugate gives good advice.
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« Reply #415 on: November 22, 2009, 09:36:22 AM » |
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How can s/he manage to not BS his/her way at least to a 30? Oh, she wrote several pages of b.s., none of them relevant to the question at hand. B.S. just makes me grumpy. I wrote one comment at the end: "Empty." As in, devoid of relevant information, arguments and evidence. "Empty." I'm going to make it my new comment for b.s. essays. |
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I recommend bourbon and bonbons for that.
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« Reply #416 on: November 22, 2009, 09:53:03 AM » |
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Whew.
Thought I made an error in my exam solution.
I'm going to take a break and let the feeling of raw panic subside.
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"Interestingly, many fans find that Seger looks increasingly more like the cereal brand character Captain Crunch as he ages." - Wikipedia entry on Bob Seger.
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« Reply #417 on: November 22, 2009, 10:13:25 AM » |
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"Empty." I'm going to make it my new comment for b.s. essays.
I like it. Thanks, Undisciplined. |
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« Reply #418 on: November 22, 2009, 12:46:29 PM » |
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"Empty." I'm going to make it my new comment for b.s. essays.
I like it. Thanks, Undisciplined. Not at all, thundering. If even one single bit of good came out of that essay.... |
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« Reply #419 on: November 22, 2009, 01:11:55 PM » |
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How can s/he manage to not BS his/her way at least to a 30? Oh, she wrote several pages of b.s., none of them relevant to the question at hand. B.S. just makes me grumpy. I wrote one comment at the end: "Empty." As in, devoid of relevant information, arguments and evidence. "Empty." I'm going to make it my new comment for b.s. essays. My condolences. I love the "empty" comment though. Usually I can hunt and peck and find some information to count for points if they actually address the question, but "empty" is a perfect comment for those which clearly reveal that they were asleep all semester. |
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