Alternative grading methods

[SallyMander]

I am sick of grading!!! WAAAHHHH!!! :cry:

So i am procrastinating by thinking about alternative grading methods. What do you think?

(1) Throw the papers across the room. Those that go the farthest get A's.
(2) Feed the papers to the puppy. Those that are chewed into the smallest chunks fail.
(3) Put the papers in the fireplace. Those that take the longest to catch fire get the best grades.

Any other ideas? :silly:


Happy Sunday Loungers! :hi:

[billyskank]

1. My idea.

(1) Bury all the papers in the garden and plant a tree on top of them.
(2) Give all the students A grades and cigars.

:hi:

[SallyMander]

2. Ooh, i like it!

And i think the students would too! :rofl:

How's it going billyskank? :hug:

[billyskank]

3. I'm doing okay.

But I'm supposed to be cleaning up my pad and I think I am in need of a serious ass kicking.

:hug:

[SallyMander]

7. Where is Skittles when you need her?

:D

[DarkTirade]

4. So they'll fail because YOUR dog ate their homework?

Totally not fair.

... I kinda like it. :P

[SallyMander]

8. Hmm, maybe i should reverse it

Because if Simon chews it into tiny pieces, it means he LIKED it, right? ;)

:hi:

[DarkTirade]

23. But what does he know about the subject matter?

If he's well versed, then the second way works better. If not, then the first way works better.

[skygazer]

5. Place papers in a random pile

First paper gets an A. Second a B. Third a C. Fourth a D. Fifth an F.

Repeat.

:P

[SallyMander]

9. LOL! Good one

but then i'd end up with a uniform grade distribution... i have to come up with a pattern that gives me mostly B's and C's. :D

[PassingFair]

6. A's all around.

Make it a Jubilee marking!

[SallyMander]

10. My students would like you!

Although i actually did just finish grading the *boring* way -- and they all did pretty well! :D

[XemaSab]

11. Grade on the strength of the first and last paragraphs alone

:D

[SallyMander]

12. Hmm, that would probably be pretty representative

:think:

I like it! :D

[Chan790]

13. I had one when I taught creative writing...

in an after-school program. The grades didn't really matter for much...the highest grade for the session (12 classes, 1 class a week) got a story published in the newspaper. The purpose was to get them interested in writing for fun.

Part of the guidelines from the program-funder was that they had to write a graded assignment every week...well, the first week, I haven't yet taught them anything so I have nothing to grade them on...I gave everybody an "E" on their 5 minute prompt, then told them to revise it over the course with what they learned and turn it in for credit the last day of class.

[SallyMander]

16. Ha! Did they freak out? nt

[Chan790]

20. Kind of...

I'd explained why I thought it was stupid to give a graded prompt first-thing the first day of class in a subject they'd never studied.

That'd be like handing-out a astrophysics quiz the first day of HS physics. I had a teacher do that in HS because it was the super-advanced college-credit course and he wanted to send a message that his class wasn't going to be a cakewalk for the kids who had coasted on their intelligence and hadn't done real classwork in years.

[SallyMander]

22. Your HS teacher sounds loony!

That sounds like a good way to make all the students hate/fear you on the first day! At least with your approach, they got to "fix" it!

[DS1]

14. cut the names out

pass the papers out to different students and have them grade each other

[SallyMander]

17. Ooh, that's a good one

I'll have to keep that in mind for next quarter...

[petronius]

15. Look up each student's transcript on the school computer, and give them the

grade that corresponds to their overall GPA. :)

[SallyMander]

18. LOL! I don't know if i have access

being a lowly grad student. :P

:D

[Shine]

19. Just give 'em all A's

that way, when they do their faculty evaluations, at the end of the class, you'll get excellent reviews!

See? It's all about YOU, not them!

:rofl: Good luck.

[SallyMander]

21. LOL! I wonder about that all the time...

the correlation between grading leniency and evaluations! :rofl:

I got them all done the standard way, so we'll see how the evals look... :scared:

[sohndrsmith]

24. hand them back, ungraded to other students. Next homework assignment:

Grade the paper you were assigned and hand it in.

I dunno, maybe???

When I was in 3rd/4th/5th grade or something, my school decided to do away with grades for quite a while. Supposedly a more progressive thing to do, I don't know. They did go back to grades after a while. I think it drove the teachers bonkers... : )

[Fire Walk With Me]

25. Get a Mr. Hat puppet, then say and do whatever you want.

We'll back you up. :thumbsup:

[madeline_con]

26. Two words, peer evaluation.

But the evaluater has to be able to justify why he thinks the paper earned the grade.