I was asking some of my tutees about their grades, and whether they knew which topics they might need to review for comprehensive finals and so on. Two of my students in AP Physics at their schools said none<\/i> of the tests they have taken this year have been graded yet. That is to say: even tests they took early in September have not been graded<\/i>. One has taken four unit tests and zero have been graded.<\/p>\n
Other tutees say tests take a long time to grade, so for example, one has gotten is test on Kinematics from early September graded, but none of the other tests have been graded. So, that’s 3 kids with tests graded so s_l_o_w_l_y that I would deem “slow grading” to be seriously counterproductive to learning. All these kids are in public schools. (The kids at Benet Academy which is private report somewhat slow grading of labs, but tests are graded fairly promptly– as in within a week. Though not optimum, I’d say slowish grading of labs has sort of always been fairly common. )<\/p>\n
I haven’t been “grilling” all of them to get specific statistics– but basically, more teachers than I would have expected seem to give a really, really, really low priority to getting tests graded in a reasonable time, or perhaps are so very, very busy and overworked they can’t manage to find time to grade them. <\/p>\n
Those of you with kids in high school: Is zero tests being graded even as Thanksgiving approaches within the range “new normal”? Or have I encountered a statistical anomaly? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was asking some of my tutees about their grades, and whether they knew which topics they might need to review for comprehensive finals and so on. Two of my students in AP Physics at their schools said none of the tests they have taken this year have been graded yet. That is to say: … Continue reading Test Grading: How long is reasonable?<\/span>