Diane K. Jakacki

Tag: semester

  • Report from the Grading Trenches: Dispatch One

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    I spent a lot of time this summer thinking about how to streamline my grading process. I spoke with colleagues, read many Profhacker articles (just search Profhacker by “assessment” and you’ll get 101 hits), and looked at my past approaches to embracing a syllabus that expects students to experiment with multimodal forms of composition without…

  • The semester at an end

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    I plowed through marking and submitted final grades yesterday. I should be overjoyed but have that strange feeling that I’m not doing something I should be … some sort of post-grading stress. Overall it was a good semester. Students were on the whole enthusiastic and responsive – which made it more gratifying. Considering I threw…