How Does Your Instructor Grade Your Writing?
Because the goal of
writing is to help you learn our nation’s history and the priority is for you
to be accurate, I grade your writing by comparing what you wrote side by side
with the facts in the textbook. With essays submitted, I use a method that lets
me quickly identify all of the submissions where the students wrote on the same
question. It is—as is obvious—a slow method, but it works.
1. I place side by side these things. (With distance learning classes, I
download the submissions, print them, and then place them side by side.)
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On the left, the
textbook opened to the probable section or sections students should have
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On the right, a stack
of all the submissions of students’ papers on that question. I also have a stack of
rubrics to mark and a matrix for recording the class results. |
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In other words. I make it
possible to grade you accurately and very fast.
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2. I use the rubric for feedback and grade each student’s submissions one by
one. (With distance learning classes, I log what I see on the grid page on the
right and then enter the results in the online rubric.)
3. If there are multiple possible questions, I then repeat the steps above
with the next question.
With the two essays for
the Unit exams, I grade one of the questions using the layoff shown above.
Sometimes I toss a coin or something like that to be sure I am not grading the
same topic number each time.
Unless I find problems
such as factual errors in that first essay I grade, I grade the other one without
the textbook side by side with your paper—a quicker method.
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Copyright C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2014 |
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WCJC Department: |
History – Dr. Bibus |
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Contact Information: |
281.239.1577 or bibusc@wcjc.edu
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Last Updated: |
2014 |
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