Making Grading Easier: Crafting A Quality Prompt
14 February 2008
12:30-2:00 p.m. in SC 207
When you grade student writing, does it seem that your students responded to a different assignment than the one you gave them? Do you spend way too much time deciding grades for writing? Do you dread having to justify your grading decisions to students? The answer to these questions lies in the instructions you give students, the expectations you set for them and the skills that they bring to the assignments you create. Join us for the beginning of a semester-long conversation about the grading process. While it may not seem so, the time to think about how you will grade your assignments is before the pile has arrived on your doorstep!
The Idiot’s Guide to Assigning and Grading Student Writing in the QU Seminars
24 October 2008
12:30-2:00 pm in SC207
This will be a broad ranging, hands on workshop that explores the intricacies of assignment making and paper grading, noting along the way all of the ways that we might make the processes easier and more comprehendible to our students. Faculty in attendance should bring an assignment prompt of their own, preferably one they have not yet given. We will have copies of the final QU 101 assignment on hand for those who want to focus on that assignment. Faculty not yet teaching in the QU seminars should also consider themselves invited; please bring an assignment prompt from your classes.
Both workshops were sponsored by the Faculty Collaborative for Excellence in Learning and Teaching and presented by the QUWAC Committee.