Grading freshmen composition essays makes you lose IQ points. Why? Because there’s only one of you grading over 500 sub-literate essays a semester. You don’t raise them up. By sheer numbers, they pull you down. Try telling this to your Dean and see how sympathetic he is. He’ll say, “We hired you to change the future of America, you nincompoop!”
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One of my least favorite parts of teaching: grading papers.
Posted by: jonnybardo | April 30, 2014 at 01:36 PM
I hear that automated essay grading is making progress: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/04/13/large-study-shows-little-difference-between-human-and-robot-essay-graders#sthash.QHROoeu4.kJWLwcvq.dpbs
Kick back, turn on the radio, and let the machine do the heavy lifting...
Posted by: RadioFlynn | May 01, 2014 at 10:33 AM