Grading

It's that time of year again when we're doing that most unrewarding part of our job- marking exam scripts. As an alternative to actually doing them I thought I'd blog a couple of thoughts about doing them and see if any, keen like myself to avoid the actual doing have any responses

1) I prefer the word 'grading' to other descriptions of what we do with scripts as I think it is really similar of sorting eggs into different sizes for 'consumers' of our graduates. Thinking that it is anything more than that I think leads to confusion about the process and distracts from heroic task it is: labelling a human being as a pass, 2.2, 2.1, First class.

2) I think examiners get really confused about what the numbers they assign to examination attempts mean. To try to make explicit some of this confusion or disagreement I like to make the following irritating statement that I actually believe in : Two scripts, one superior to another, can both theoretically get a mark of 100%.

I suppose I'd better get back to grading now but am interested in the thoughts of others on the matter.
Best Regards,
Brenan

Layout

Some initial comments. (Maybe we need to meet to chat about details). Or I could invite you to the next L&T Committee (usually sandwiches provided over lunch!) so that the others gave input?

1. Title "News from the Faculty Board..." I wondered if yhe word News needs to be broader to be more inclusive and create a sense that the source of everything is not just the Committee but staff in the faculty are welcome to initiate learning discussions.

2. RHS title 'faculty of business' maybe needs to be 'Faculty of Business' to maintain the DIT usual way. Probably the same for the 'Committee'.

3. Instead of 'Head of Committee:' say 'Chair: Head of Learning Development:' with Robbie Burns as the name on the next line.

Until we get some experience on the postings and responses it is difficult to comment in more detail.
Robbie

Commenting on the development of this blog

Fiacra
Thanks for the work so far. I have been away and have just caught up after the Easter holidays.
I am trying this out for ease of use - so far so good with the login. Some more comments later.
Robbie