But doesn’t that make you inclined to not read as carefully or grade as thoroughly or not leave as many comments? “Oh whatever, that was mostly right. Yay, high score!”
If you’re at the point where you need to employ tricks to finish the grading at all, then I think this is unfortunately a secondary concern. Once you can consistently finish the grading, then I think you can start worrying about its quality.
See, I always worry that the easiest way to get through grading is to just give everyone A’s regardless of what they turned in. So I feel like you somehow have to factor in a reward for quality or that’s what your system will collapse into?
I would never be tempted to do that, but that comes from a strong desire to tell people when they’re wrong which is not necessarily a good thing overall.
But doesn’t that make you inclined to not read as carefully or grade as thoroughly or not leave as many comments? “Oh whatever, that was mostly right. Yay, high score!”
If you’re at the point where you need to employ tricks to finish the grading at all, then I think this is unfortunately a secondary concern. Once you can consistently finish the grading, then I think you can start worrying about its quality.
See, I always worry that the easiest way to get through grading is to just give everyone A’s regardless of what they turned in. So I feel like you somehow have to factor in a reward for quality or that’s what your system will collapse into?
I would never be tempted to do that, but that comes from a strong desire to tell people when they’re wrong which is not necessarily a good thing overall.