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  1. Michelle

    I despise assessment (but will like it much more next semester because I’ve helped to design it) and think it’s totally cool if your students even know any of those words (besides halibut, of course).

    I don’t know if that’s Tink or Zeugma (Z?), but she looks so totally peaceful. I can see how cat idolization developed.

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  2. bradley

    I have five assistants of that sort, but only three who are willing to let me share the desk with them. They especially like it when I have a fire going in the wood-burning stove.

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  5. mike (author)

    Tink’s looking a good bit more blissful than I’ll be looking tomorrow after grading calibration, when 21 of my colleagues and I receive 3384 electronically submitted cadet papers, each needing to be read and graded within about 24 hours.

    The eyes, they will bleed.

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  7. joanna

    i second that ugh. But I’d love to hear more about calibration and what you all do–it sounds like norming. How many papers are you each expected to read?

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  8. bradley

    My god, that’s over 150 each (3384/22=153+). That’s insane. I’d sure hate to have mine read near the end. We have about the same number of faculty reading about 600 student portfolios, three essays each, and that’s brutal when stretched over two work days.

    On a related note, we’re looking at an ePortfolio system from Chalk and Wire (chalkandwire.com) that would make something like this more manageable, if such can be the case.

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  10. Anndraya

    She’s not assessing any-tink…she’s just enjoying the warmth of the lamplight on her face. Simple Cat Zen.

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