UWP Lecturers grades

[Kate Watt]

Late notice indeed, since I told my students I would accept their take-home
finals until Thursday morning.      Ummm.

If their reason for this request/new rule (?)  is "We have a small window to
drop non-passing students in order to free up seats for spring quarter."

then I would suggest the following:

On the 19th, we could tell them our fails, even if we couldn't quite tell
them our complete grades for Winter quarter.

Some of us may not know, on Friday, precisely what grades every student will
get.   But we will know, probably already do know, most of our failing
students.   The plagiarist you caught 3 weeks ago, the kid who hasn't shown
up for 3 weeks, the kid going into the final with three failing papers....
Perhaps in some cases the final is a make or break factor, but in most cases
the final is pretty consistent with the rest of the quarter's work and only
raises or lowers the average a little bit.  In addition, you could grade the
marginal students' finals first, to be sure.

This compromise meets their need for information while freeing those of us
who were planning to finish up next weekend.

All this being said, I intend to finish by Friday.



Kate Watt
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