I gave 50 exams yesterday and have graded them all and entered the grades in the computer grading system. At no other time do I realize quite what a task oriented person I am than at exam grading time. I got them all lined up at about 11:30 a.m. with the keys ready and food by my side and away I went - grading all of one page at a time and then turning them all to the next page. There were a couple of interruptions to sort out grades on an inegrated project I'm doing with the social studies teacher, to help the music teacher adjust his computer grading system to include the exam weighting, to help a practicing teacher who is presenting a lesson to my sixth grade tomorrow, and to clean the chocolate brownie I had for dessert off a few exams. At quarter to four they were all done and entered and I was on my way to the golf course. I'm only givign 23 exams today so it should be a piece of cake - and I will be much more careful with my chocolate brownie.
When I was a professor of science education at a university in London I would have a huge student exam to check. The exam was monitored by an outside inspector and the scoring was vital for the level of degree the student received, so they took around 30 minutes each to mark. I would take a stack of about 10 with me on a walk. I would have a route of nice parks I would follow. I'd start at the first park and sit there until I finished 4. Then I would move to another park and do 4 more. Then move to another park for the last 2 and that would be my quota for the day. The system worked very well until I had a rainy day. Then it was the torture of sitting home and trudging through them as the drizzle came down. The students who got marked on a rainy day proably had a lsight disadvantage over those who were marked in the parks.
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