The grading thread

[ciao_yall]

Interested in seeing how folks would grade an answer like this:

Question: How did Steve mend the fight he was having with Jackie?
Answer: He got rid of all the ducks that he was keeping in the backyard.
Student answers: He got rid of all the ducks, plus he gave her ten dollars, plus he helped her brother move the couch.

In the story, there's no ten dollars nor is there a couch. When I google those phrases, all three turn up on a CourseHero study guide for that story, as the answer to that question.

So I'm tempted to give the students zero credit for that question. Generally when students take a shotgun approach to such questions, I give them partial credit. Here, though, they're clearly getting their answers from a (bad) study guide. On the other hand, our university has a pretty rigid procedure for academic misconduct, and I feel like that office won't look kindly on me for sending them a ton of cases over this single question.

I'd give it a zero plus Langue_doc's explanation of te zero.


For my part, I have two quizzes J should mark today.

Zero, with an explanation. "Please show me in the story where it says there is 10 dollars and a couch."

I had a student write as her answer "See Appendix B." In the teacher's edition, there was an Appendix B which gave sample answers. The student edition had no Appendix B.

[Parasaurolophus]

S'pose I gotta mark a quiz today. Ugh.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

Oy vey!

I'm in the middle of compiling final grades and a student keeps emailing me about a test where stu didn't answer most of the short answer questions. I feel for the student, but I can't grade what isn't there!

I'm frustrated, stu is frustrated, everyone is frustrated this semester.

I finally told stu to just wait until I finish grading this week.

[Parasaurolophus]

I should probably mark five or so papers today. Sigh.

[Parasaurolophus]

I should probably mark five or so papers today. Sigh.

Done! One of today's five was plagiarized, and although I knew it almost immediately, it took a while to find the exact sources. It's the waste of time that bothers me most, and now I have to schedule a Zoom meeting with her. Sigh.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

Graded 2 sets of lab finals and 2 sets of lab reports. What a pain in the butt.

[EdnaMode]

I'm hoping to get the bulk of the final projects graded today, got a good start yesterday.

[Parasaurolophus]

I have to scale up to marking ten papers today. Ugh.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

Three sets of finals and four sets of lab reports. Can I do it???

[OneMoreYear]

6 research papers. I don't want to.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

Student submits a file to turnitin that was written in Notepad. Wtf???

[the_geneticist]

Waiting on my TAs to finish grading the last lab assignment.  Did I mention that I said I wanted these grades last Friday???

[Parasaurolophus]

I have to scale up to marking ten papers today. Ugh.

I did it! And the last quiz that needed marking, too. Ugh indeed!

[Puget]

Just finished a marathon exam grading on zoom with the TAs! Not making the grades visible until tomorrow though because I don't want to deal with student emails tonight.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

I graded 3 sets of lab reports today and 1 final exam. Working on the last set of lab reports.

God give me strength!

Then, Calgon take me away!!!