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From: roberta@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Roberta Millstein)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: cruelty to undergrads
Message-ID: <8553@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 7 Apr 88 00:51:52 GMT
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Reply-To: roberta@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Roberta Millstein)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover,NH
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>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

Good idea but...

>I put lots of multiple-choice/fill-in-the-blanks/even T-F questions to
>keep grading time reasonable.)

Bleah!  Even in upper level courses?  "Muliple-guess" etc. seem fine for intro
courses but I would think that any upper level course should require answers
involving more depth of thought.  'Course, I'm biased, since I'm not a
professor and don't have to grade anything...


-- 
Roberta Millstein                             roberta@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
                                              ...dartvax!eleazar!roberta

Would you believe Dartmouth is kicking me out into the real world this spring?