Why Teachers Should Not Let Students Grade Papers
My peers did not like me, as a result when they graded my paper, they would randomly give me X marks instead of check marks. I would fail tests and other work handed out by the teacher that were graded by students.
I was also blamed for being a copycat and gained that reputation. Because of the reputation, a teacher would favor another's work over mine if they looked the same. Teachers solved the copycat problem by failing the copycats, and because I had the reputation of cheating, my paper was selected as the copycat. This would also happen when no one cheated.
I am not alone, either. These students did not just hate me, but also other students in other classes. With the students having the privilege of grading the papers, other students that were doing well had discouraging grades, causing them to give up like me.
It's hard to look at your answers on a failed test and not understand why the answer is wrong. I remember checking and double checking my work trying to get the correct answer, but always getting that same wrong answer. It was these kinds of failures that made school work more painful to bear. The failures and amount of homework, along with other things, helped cause me to stop doing school work. Because of that, I stopped studying and practicing, and because of that, my grades truly were in the F range.
Do not let your students grade any papers, even though some of those students behave and are always doing good, they can do things like sabotage those they do not like. This could cause the other students who behave and do well to become discouraged and land in trouble. As a result, they stop doing home work and do not care about going to school.
Letting students grade papers can teach them a little about doing that kind of job and also take some work off of the teachers. There is a problem of the students sabotaging others and even just making mistakes. It's best for the teacher to grade, then to let any of his/her students grade the papers.
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12 Comments
Post a CommentIt is also a invasion of privacy, other students should not get to know your grade. Illegal.
my child told me that 2
I am responding to a comment that school is a safe place. School is not a safe place, you can look at it anyway you wnt to, it will still be what it is. I was harmed at school by students and teachers alike. Through out my entire school life I was picked on, beatin, blamed and framed, made an example out of. I have seen other students cheated the way I was. Blamed for crimes you did not comment, for the sake of showing the other students the penilty for breaking a rule. Threat, verbal abuse, bad self asteem, physical abuse, and sexual abuse (I was not sexually abused at school, though I saw my girl peers suffer from it.) So yes I had a serious of very bad Years. School is not a Safe house,
I'm not buying it. The writer would have us believe that all through school, an entire series of menacing classmates saw to it that one particular student failed everything she ever did and that not one teacher--over the span of years--considered that possibility, or considered the possibility of impropriety yet did nothing. I'm sorry. I'm not buying it. Something else is going on here.
I am a student in which teacher locked in a room FOUR PERIODS to grade HER papers!!!!
As a comment on the students grading their own work. I know in later years, that even though teachers let students grade, they would still grade those some papers. Even though the teacher still was going over and checking the graded papers, it saved the teacher time. This prevented mis graded papers, and helped the teacher save time.
Well, as a sub, I can tell you that MANY of the teachers I sub for let the students grade their OWN work (most often around 6th to 8th grade though occasionally in higher grades as well). I remember in school when we'd grade other kids' work, but I don't remember ever having anyone be mean and give bad grades. Anyway, I guess letting kids grade their OWN work only gives them the possibility to cheat for themselves, but really, if a teacher's giving out too much work for her to grade herself, then she's just giving out too much work. When I taught full-time, I never let my students grade their own or each others' work.
no no it's not the teachers fault. If this teacher had known, then some students would have gotten the paddle. That paddle in her hand did not play.
This sounds like a case of a horrible, horrible teacher to me.
P.S. Congrats on having a feature article. :)