21 March 2009

Grading

Everyone says you don't quite know how much you know about something until you explain it to someone else.

I say to heck with that. You don't know how much you know about something until you have to grade someone else's explanation of it! Because then, you have to muck through all the bizarre reasoning, the sentences that are meant to sound smart but really don't say anything at all, or worse, that don't even parse syntactically. I don't feel like I know much about the assignment I'm currently grading, though I wish I did and I'm working my butt off to get better at it. Happily, it seems the students know even less. Makes my job that much easier.

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