Exam Grading
I am tired of teachers taking an unreasonably long time to grade and return exams. According to the school-wide syllabus, "all courses must have a published, good-faith policy defining when
homework, exams, and other graded coursework will be returned. In general most work should be returned to students within two weeks, along with suitable materials/feedback that enable students to
understand how to improve their learning/performance".
I took an exam in one of my classes back in mid February and it has not been graded yet. Returning exams in a timely manner is important as it provides feedback to students and is crucial to correcting mistakes. It is very likely now that we will take our next exam before getting our first ones back.
The good faith policy needs to hold teachers accountable for their grading rather than provide an unenforced guideline. I propose that teachers are "penalized" for returning exams/assignments late by awarding students an extra 10% on their assignment/exam for each day past two weeks until the assignment has been graded and returned.
It may sound a bit extreme, but students are often penalized much more harshly for turning in an assignment late. In one of my classes, you lose 25% for every day the assignment is turned in late. In another class, any late assignment is an automatic zero.
This policy would simply mirror student policies that are already in place to discourage tardiness. We should all be held accountable for being timely, not just the students.
UPDATE;
We advise that you contact your teacher directly in an effort to get a timeline for when the exam will be returned. It may also be beneficial to contact the department head as they may have information for you. As far as enforcing the two week rule, it is something we have and will continue to look into.
Sincerely,
USG
We will have our At Large to the Faculty bring this up at their next faculty meeting and keep you updated on what they say.
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Haugen22 commented
True! This is what I am afraid of. I want to complete my assignments on time and also give time for practicing LSAT Logic Games. I just found some amazing ones online on https://testmaxprep.com/lsat/free-lsat-prep/logic-games-setups and I just need to look for assignment help online. I don’t want to be penalized for anything.
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Anonymous commented
That "penalty" is not a good incentive for professors. Professors want students to do well, and if your penalty was enacted, everyone would just walk away from a class with a good grade, which doesn't help anything (except a student's individual GPA).
Instead, I think there should be a place for professors to be anonymously reported for such egregious lags in grading, where the department heads can take disciplinary action against the professors, if possible (since tenure is a thing). Or at least something along those lines.