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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Read it

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/19/12/harvard-edcast-grading-equity[/quote]

I'm not sure whether he realizes that the unavoidable conclusion of his argument for accuracy is that you shouldn't grade students at all during the year but just administer a final exam, and that will be the grade.
The problem with that approach is that the vast majority of students have very low self-regulation skills and won't do any work if they're not constantly badgered to do it. The idea of not grading homework and convincing students that they need to do it to learn only works with the kids who knew that in the first place.[/quote]

I've had several articles come up on my news feed from teachers saying that they've stopped grading entirely.  And how happy they are!  [/quote]

I’ve graded very little since Jan and COULD NOT be happier. I highly recommend it, but I’ve also submitted my resignation for June-so happy all around.[/quote]

There are like a gazillion teacher work days in the calendar. There's no excuse not to be able to keep up with grading. And everything is electronic so it's not like you are manually calculating the average like pre-technolgy (and yet teachers pre-2000 seemed to manage grades just fine w/o computers and w/o all the teacher work days).[/quote]

Okay. I’ll play. If I receive 120 essays, it will take me over 20 hours to grade that assignment at 10 minutes / essay. While I’m grading those, I also gave a test that will take me 10 hours at 5 minutes / test. (I have to move forward with curriculum!) I can’t take time off from my primary role of teaching to get through those 30 hours of assignments to grade. I get (at most) 60 minutes a day away from students to get all of my work done. Oops! Now my planning period has been taken away to either cover a class or attend a meeting. THERE’S the reason teachers can’t catch up. If I now have to provide retakes, all of those new exams I have to write and rewritten papers I have to score have to happen on top of the 30 extra hours of work / week I already have. [/quote]

Serious question.... do you not expect to have to catch up on work in the evenings? Or weekends sometimes? I don't know too many professionals who don't have to get back on the computer at night to get everything done. Not all of them (myself included) are well paid either. I don't think about my job as X number of hours... I think of it as working as long as it takes to get the job done. Why would teachers be exempt from this? My mom was a teacher and she brought home grading all the time. 
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I am, IMO, well paid ($200k+) and I do not experience this. I work 40 hours per week. Maybe 6 weeks out of the year I work an extra 5 hours or so. If I do work those extra hours, I am financially compensated for them.[/quote]

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