If students have shown me they don't understand how much work goes into marking, ScaryLecturer has just proven himself to be a worse culprit. He gave me a marking schedule for the latest assignment on Friday (I had assumed until then that I wasn't getting one, since he never got around to it for the first assignment), then I ran into him today and he wanted to know what the mean and standard deviation were.
67 assignments, people!
When I admitted I hadn't yet finished marking enough of them to make it worth working out the statistics, he replied thoughtfully but with a touch of disbelief, "Well, I suppose it might have been more than one days' work to get them all marked..."
He supposeth right.
I totally forgot you were a day ahead, and thought all of this occurred on a sunday!
ReplyDeleteYowza! I'd like to see how long it would take him to grade them!
And means and sds? That's obscene! Now, in saying that, I know I used to do that as well as distributions and frequencies for my old, beloved advisor. I would never, however, ask any of that of my TA's.
I hate it so much when students ask when something will be graded.
This did happen on a Sunday, Shrinky. He was in at uni when I went in to do a couple of hours work yesterday (Sunday) afternoon.
ReplyDeleteI don't mind doing statistics on the marks, since I put them all into a spreadsheet anyway, so it's only one click away.
But man. He could wait until, like the day before I have to hand the assignments back. Because that's when I'm planning on marking them :)