I am up to my eyeballs in grading: Research papers (+/- 40 @6 pages min) and reflective essays this week.
Coming in on Friday: revision portfolios (+/- 40). Revision of an essay is optional, and historically about 20% of students do it. So maybe I'll have 8 papers to regrade. But I still have to read all of the reflective letters and check the worksheets.
Coming in on Monday 5/14: Hamsters in Nature take-home exam essays (two per student, each one 3 pages min., 21 students)
Coming in on Tuesday 5/15: NOTHING.
Coming in on Wednesday 5/16: More portfolios (17 at min. 20 pages each), these from my artistic hamster-fur weavers.
I can't bear (haha) to tot up how much reading/grading this is, but I have deployed my sign with the Kodiak to warn students not to bother me. I'm still available to them; they just have to plan in advance. The sign says "Email to schedule an appointment to see me"--and we'll see how long it takes for someone to knock.
This is a small, early thirsty: What have you got left? What's your plan of attack? If you're done, what are you doing that's fun?
My idea of sick fun right now is making every student sit and wait. (Insert Mr. Burns-esque finger tapping and his evil grin.) Graduate grades are due mid-week and the rest not until next week. After grading all weekend, I am taking my weekend now and marinating on the grades.I'm giving my last exam tomorrow and then I won't have to be on campus! I have all but that class finished and I don't care how many gd emails I get
ReplyDeleteasking for grades because "I'm so nervous I can't sleep". Oh and it felt damn good to be a gangsta today to ignore
a student pounding down my door... I was there and
visible, but on the phone. This is MY idea of fun until
next week.
Sorry for the bad spacing. Submitted via phone like our students. :)
Delete9 3-pagers left for one class. (Well, 3-4 pages, but let's not crap our pants with optimism.) Awaiting revisions from the same class (23 students) on their major research papers - coming in Thursday - 6 pg minimum. They couldn't do it right the first time (I informed them that most of them would fail last week), so I let them do it over. It's one of those concurrent enrollment high school classes, so their school pushes for a lot of make-ups. They're also allowed to rewrite their shorter essays from earlier in the semester. I'm trying to finish up the 3-pagers now, before class tomorrow. They also have final exam essays to write tomorrow.
ReplyDelete8 or so 4-pagers from another class. I designed the assignment so I would enjoy reading the essays, but they're blockheaded enough that they'll probably ruin it. They'll take the final exam essay tomorrow night.
~35 essay portfolios (three essays plus a reflection in each, plus any roughs, notes, or peer reviews they want to include) coming in at the end of this week for two other classes. Get to spend the weekend slaving over those so that they can have their grades on Monday.
One final down, three to go, and one set of take home exams/essays that are already trickling in. I hope to be done by Thursday afternoon.
ReplyDeleteHa. Half a quarter left. Don't talk to me. Grrrrrr.
ReplyDeleteYou and me both, F & T. Snarl.
ReplyDelete~70-80 lab reports, but they're short (most are four pages. Some are a full five. If they could write better, they could actually accomplish all of the requirements in two pages plus a graph, but few of them are that eloquent.)
ReplyDelete~200 report sheets (just he data and questions and crap that come in the book).
26 finals and up to 2*26 extra credit take-home tests.
So not bad all in all. But it's probably not good that I put he Red Bull away for the night and queued up last week's Suburgatory on-demand.
That's OK. I chucked my grading to watch Thor on Monday night, and last night I watched Captain America: The First Avenger.
DeleteI'm on quarters. That means seven more blessed weeks. Do you REALLY want me to list everything that's still coming in? I just collected midterm portfolios and gave midterms today...
ReplyDeleteOn your behalf, I say "Blerg."
DeleteToo much to even list (and a summer term to follow immediately -- all too immediately -- on the current one). And new meetings keep popping up, leaving me even less time to do the grading, or prepare for the coming term. And part of the content of said meetings is to give us a heads-up about more and more stuff that needs to go into course materials, most of it aimed, as far as I can tell, primarily at assessors, and only secondarily at students (who have made it very clear, at least in my course evaluations, that they want less, not more, prose from me). The new requirements/expectations, in turn, make the task of adapting existing materials for the coming term ever more complex (and probably mean more little activities, and hence more grading, as well. . .and so on). I'm very, very tired; I'd hoped to have a day or two off sometime next week, and I don't think it's going to happen. Oh, and I've got a revised version of a journal article due in the next 10 days, too (which is good news, except for all the other stuff that keeps getting added to the week to come). Aargh. And, yes, I'm finding myself growling at people. Of course, I'd growl even harder if they sprung this all on me in August, but still, grrrrrrrrr.
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