Window into the life of a UK academic or: "What do lecturers do with all that free time they have between classes?"
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
Different grades...
Today I have mostly been:
Doing an awful lot of marking.
Our MSc Health Psychology students each submit a paper prepared for publication in a specified journal, based on the empirical study they did for their dissertation. Some interesting topics and high quality work - but marking them takes ages. Grading each one is effectively the same as completing a peer review for a journal. Each is marked by the original supervisor and independently marked by another memeber of the course team.
The process hasn't been helped by having to be blind second marker on a resit undergraduate project which was three times the specified length! Needless to say this did not endear it to me.
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