Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3196-3200 (11th to 15th April 2016)
cesium133:
Everyone gets exactly the grade they deserve.
(Everyone deserves an F. :evil: )
Fen:
It's why I like teaching younger kids. You tend to focus on how cute they are when they're wrong but at least they try, since you have a different set of expectations. The ennui still kicks in after 10-15 papers, though; I wonder if kids realise how much their grade might be affected by where they put their paper on the stack at the end of the test.
If everyone else is bad -> they get a way higher grade as expectations plummet
If everyone else is really good -> they get a lower one as expectations rise
If they're all kind of the same -> they get evened out
If they're the first paper the prof reads -> they pretty much set the mood for everyone else's grading expectations.
BenRG:
Poor Claire! That said, maybe those actually doing the TA role IRL could enlighten us: Are you really saddled with all the hard and monotonous stuff that the professor can't be bothered to even look at himself/herself or is this just another one of those 'everyone knows' tropes that isn't actually reflected in real life?
Meanwhile, I sense a 'weird party-like event' in the offing. Faye wants to encourage Bubbles to socialise more and Marten will want to give Claire a break before something snaps (probably her sanity followed by someone's neck). So, we may yet have another one of those awkward QC social events where much philosophical discussion occurs and certain secondary/background characters behave like idiots. As always this would end with one major character development.
ZoeB:
The one thing I didn't like about teaching was marking exams. I taught postgraduate courses, hard ones, with 3hour exams. 30 in the class, and to mark one properly took over 3 hours. 100 hours of marking in the 2 week break was grueling. I did manage to cut down the work a little by making a marking guide for the simpler questions, and getting some tutors to mark those separately, but the subtle questions with multiple correct answers, and requiring evidence of evaluation of each..needed an expert.
gopher:
If the answer seems about the right size you give them the same mark you did for the last piece of work +/- 5%.
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