Joshua Grochow

Has anyone played around with encouraging (but not requiring) students to teach one another?

One way of demonstrating mastery of the material is teaching it to others. I feel like if student A says "Student B really helped me understand the material" that increases my Bayesian posterior that student B understood the material really well (and also that student A understood it, since presumably after student B explained it, student A understood it at least better than they did before).

I wouldn't do this as the only, or even major, part of their grade, but it seems like if the grade is to reflect learning, that teaching it to others certainly reflects on their learning.

(Additional context: this is for a university-level elective technical course in Comp Sci, for 3rd and 4th-years mostly. I generally do flipped classroom and alternative grading - some combo of ungrading, mastery-based, standards-based, but I'm open to ideas. The class has about 55 students, so whatever it is can take some time but not be *too* time-intensive on me & the one TA.)

#AlternativeGrading #grading #teaching #education #CSEd #ComputerScience #CompSci

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

Anyone else hate #reading or #grading loooong, generic, or unconvincing essays? In case it's not just me:

I've been refining a 3-paragraph essay assignment for years. In this post I explain it and what I like about it.

Feel free to adapt it!

byrdnick.com/archives/29297/a-

#teaching #edu #pedagogy #writing

Jul 11, 2025, 15:47 · · · 0 · 0
Rachel Wil Singh ~ Moos-a-dee

OK I'm going to slack off on #grading programming assignments for a moment to ramble about workflow with grading.

Currently, students turn in a URL to their repository when they're done with a given lab. I just need a way for Canvas to flag that it's ready to grade.

I have a script to "git pull" all students' repositories, and I have have "tester.sh" scripts within each lab folder which builds and runs the assignments -

Dr Keith Wilson 💭

I think I just finished #grading. A month ago this felt like an impossible task. Since then aeons have passed, civilisations have risen and fallen, and time itself ceased to have any meaning. Yet here we are. 🤷‍♂️ #academia

Dr Keith Wilson 💭

I just finished #grading. A month ago this felt like an impossible task. Since then aeons have passed, civilisations have risen and fallen, and time itself ceased to have any meaning. Yet here we are. 🤷‍♂️ #academia

Erik L. Midtsveen 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
I don’t collect Pokémon cards and never will because it’s just consumerism and not my thing. 😅

I’m guilty of posting images to Mastodon instead of Pixelfed, but honestly, I should use Pixelfed for images since that’s what it’s made for, sharing photos and visual content. 📸

Anyway, I only wanted my favorite Pokémon, Lugia, graded, no matter the grade, image, or company.

My older brother, who is really into collecting now, bought me these two cards. 🎁❤

The CGC card can be seen at the link below. The other card is from PCG, which is a lesser-known UK grading company that no longer exists today. 🃏🇬🇧✨

- https://www.cgccards.com/CERTLOOKUP/1401015031016/10_0/

So now, that’s one more thing crossed off my life’s wish list! ✅✨

#Pokémon #PokémonCards #Cards #Lugia #CardGrading #Grading #CGC #PCG #PSA
Dr Keith Wilson 💭

It’s frustrating that UCD’s late submission policy more or less incentivises students to submit work late. Particularly when the work is good and you have to deduct marks because it’s late. 😟 #marking #grading #academia #UCD

Bluesky

Bluesky Social
Dr Keith Wilson 💭

It’s frustrating that #UCD’s late submission policy more or less incentivises students to submit work late. Particularly when the work is good and you have to deduct marks because it’s late. 😟 #marking #grading #academia

Dr Keith Wilson 💭

I’ve been grading some more #PhilosophyMemes. Some of these students have really knocked it out of the park! 😂 Funny and clever, showing subtlety and sophistication. Makes me realise how much we’re missing when we set them traditional essay-writing assignments. 😬 #grading #academia

Bluesky

Bluesky Social
Alexander Knochel

If you know, you know...

Ich grüße alle mit-Leidenden

#grading
#abitur
#fedilz

May 21, 2025, 12:58 · · · 0 · 0
In the Dark

Marking Time

So here we are, then, with only a few days before examinations start (next Friday, 16th May). The examinations for my two modules take place on Monday 19th and Tuesday 27th May, and after that I’ll be busy with marking for a while.

 

Marking doesn’t just mean written examinations. I have been teaching a module on Computational Physics to 3rd Year students here in Maynooth, and 40% of the assessment for that is a mini-project (usually done in groups of two or three). Early on the term, I put up a list of  16  projects and asked them to pick first second and third choices so I could form groups in such a way that most students get to work on a project they have actively chosen.

Anyway, the deadline for projects to be handed in passed last week so I’ve got a stack of those to mark which, you will realise, why I am indulging in a displacement activity by writing this blog post. My plan is to mark these during this week so that they’re done before the written examinations come in, which means by next Monday (19th). This year we have had a bigger class than usual, so this I have quite a lot of marking to do.

Last week also saw the deadline for the last assignment in Particle Physics to be handed in. I want to mark those as soon as possible, but I’m not sure I’ll have time this week, but I should be able to do them before the exam on the 27th.

Incidentally, one of the submissions of the last assignment came with a note that this was the last assignment the student had done in Maynooth and that the first one he had done, when he was in his first year, was also set by me.

 

#Examinations #Grading #Maynooth #Projects

May 12, 2025, 16:55 · · · 0 · 0
declermont

I am trying to decide what I dislike reading more: old school plagiarism, online paper mill plagiarism, or AI generated plagiarism.
#plagiarism #grading #facepalm

Apr 23, 2025, 17:31 · · · 0 · 0
Different Than

Random thing I found at a #ThriftStore: Self-Adding E-Z Average finder.

This is my most adorable non-human #computer.

#RetroComputing #OldSchool #Statistics #Rstats #teaching #grading

Mar 14, 2025, 01:44 · · · 1 · 0
Jeff Horton :canada:

One of the curious things about teaching to me is that the school and other instructors encourage me to be rigid, deadlines are deadlines, but I keep wearing my manager hat and have more allowances in my classes.

I'll accept late work, as long as you communicated. I get that some things didn't make sense to you yet because you don't have all the context, and we can talk it out before you submit.

This apparently is weakness, I think it is human.

#teaching #learning #grading

Brian Gettler

A student just referred to a song from 2004 as "semi-modern pop culture" in their final exam.

They're young. I'm old.

#grading

Brian Gettler

Something I've never seen before: one of my students italicized book titles in their handwritten final exam. They did a good job at it too. #Grading

Theresa Desrochers

It's final grading time. Send pics of cute furry critters please (for the students of course)!

Hope this brings a smile to everyone else out there grading or taking finals. End of semester home stretch! #grading #finals #neuroscience 🧠 🧪