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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: cruelty to undergrads
Message-ID: <524@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 88 13:55:50 GMT
References: <8470@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU> <359@jc3b21.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Organization: Mercer College, Trenton, NJ
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In article <359@jc3b21.UUCP> larry@jc3b21.UUCP (Lawrence F. Strickland) writes:
==Student A (whose paper is marked correct) accompanies Student B to my
==office.  Student B presents the problem in, usually, a nice manner.  Upon
==examining the problem, I find that it has been marked WRONG correctly.
==Student B then, usually a bit more beligerantly(sp?), points out that it
==was marked CORRECT on Student A's paper.  Following the concept embodied in
==the above articles, I should then re-mark Student A's paper LOWER!
==Needless to say this evokes some rather harsh criticism.
==
==BTW:  Before my name gets added to the 'Cruel to Undergraduates' List,
==might I not that I NEVER actually reduced the grade of any such student.
==
Do you raise the grade of student B?

I grade each exam one problem at a time, noting the errors in each. 
After a problem is graded, I then go back and determine the value of
each error, and subtract them from the points for that problem.  I very
rarely have two students graded differently.  (Yes, it takes forever, so
I put lots of multiple-choice/fill-in-the-blanks/even T-F questions to
keep grading time reasonable.)

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