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Still grading…
Fortunately, I didn’t have to worry about going back to the federal courthouse for jury duty today (or again this week, according to the phone system I just called), so I just have to finish the grading. Back home now, finish the job, post grades to Blackboard, and then get on to other tasks: union […]
Grading frenzy
The rest of my family (well, the humans anyway) are out of the house for the next 48 hours, and I’m grading until the work’s done. Grades are due Tuesday morning (I found out after I had shifted around the last online chat), so at least I have Tuesday morning to breathe a tiny bit.
Another professor’s plagiarism response
Mel, of In Favor of Thinking, has feelings very much like mine in response to plagiarism.
Rigor mortician on dissertation committees
The Panda’s Thumb evolution blog reports an object lesson in dissertation duplicity with an aborted thesis defense of Bryan Leonard’s “intelligent design” curriculum dissertation because, well, there was no evolutionary biologist or science education faculty on the committee! The money quote comes from the comment of Andrea Bottaro who wrote, A graduate student has the […]
Changing grades
Miriam Burstein shows once again that she is one of the queens of academic blogging in her short, pithy advice to students on the fine art of requesting a higher grade. I don’t agree with everything she says (for I do respond to e-mails asking for clarification, even if I generally stuff the response inside […]