Below is PHDComic's version of Dante's Inferno for graduate students and postdocs:
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| The Academic Edition of Dante's Inferno (Jorge Cham 2015) |
Our Grading Inferno might be described as more like:
- Post-grading haze
- Office hours filled with students wanting to know how they can do better next time
- Office hours (and emails) filled with students wanting to know how they arrived at the mark they did
- Office hours filled with students who think something went wrong (with their assignment or the marking process) *levels 2 - 4 come from Menzies' 2015 blog post*
- Carting home piles of papers from campus to home (only to cart them back again before end of term)
- Scrolling through emails for students' work (for those who couldn't find the online dropbox)
- Online learning management system woes
- Emails from students (or calls from parents!) asking why they received the grade they did (or to argue about plagiarism or late penalties)
- It's on the Syllabus...
How are practicing anthropologists and candidates experiencing their end-of-term? Tweet us @anthrolens (though we probably wont have time to respond because of the Grading Inferno...)
Quick Links:
- Jorge Cham's 2015 Dante's Inferno (Academic Version)
- Menzies' (2015) Grades: “In Full Honesty, My Paper Deserves A Better Grade.” on Anthropology @ UBC blog