I've had a rough week. I had about 60 5-page papers to grade, and I wound up getting about 14 total hours of sleep over the course of three nights finishing up the grading.
On top of that, one student turned in a paper that was 80% plagiarized from various websites. I had to fail the student for the semester.
Then I mentioned the situation to another professor and he chewed me out for about 45 minutes, saying that I had made assumptions and hadn't extended Christian grace. Since I respected this professor, it really hurt.
I'd really like to teach classes that I can test entirely through Scan-Tron.
On top of that, one student turned in a paper that was 80% plagiarized from various websites. I had to fail the student for the semester.
Then I mentioned the situation to another professor and he chewed me out for about 45 minutes, saying that I had made assumptions and hadn't extended Christian grace. Since I respected this professor, it really hurt.
I'd really like to teach classes that I can test entirely through Scan-Tron.
posted by Mark at 10/13/2007 08:50:00 PM
1 Comments:
Hmmm. Wonder what the other professor's reasoning was... Of course you made assumptions, but I suppose you'd be happy to change the grade if you discovered those assumptions were unjustified.
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