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Re: Speed Grading/ how does one get online jobs?
Posted by sm on 1/17/08
On 1/05/08, rw wrote:
> I teach an online class with 29 students and the university
> expects me to grade papers within 24 hours. Since they only
> hire part-timers at $1100 a course, they know this is a
> "second job." Great question. It would seem so, wouldn't it but likely if one asked they'd say
no, of course we expect you to give all of these papers a thorough reading and
write equally though comments on them. But since they give you 24 hours that
rather contradicts their expectations so what's the underlying message to you?
Do enough that the students feel the money they spent is validated - why are
they taking this course?
And how did you get your online job?
>
> Do you think this is the university's way of saying that I
> should mostly just give A's? I don't see how I can grade
> under these conditions except perhaps to write one sentence
> commentary per student and maybe two sentences when I'm not
> giving an A.
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Speed Grading, 1/05/08, by rw.
- Re: Speed Grading, 1/05/08, by no you are expected to write substantive comments.
- Re: Speed Grading, 1/13/08, by rw.
- Re: Speed Grading, 1/14/08, by LOL I know what you mean! .
- Re: Speed Grading/ how does one get online jobs?, 1/17/08, by sm.
- Re: Speed Grading/ how does one get online jobs?, 1/20/08, by rw.
- Re: Speed Grading/ how does one get online jobs?, 1/20/08, by rw.
- Re: how many classes , 3/14/08, by ~VP~.
- Re: how many classes , 3/26/08, by bernoulli.
- Re: how many classes , 4/04/08, by ~VP~.
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