I finished the second of the three big piles of marking on a Sunday morning. And after breakfast, I just started on the third. It had crept close to the marking deadline, so I had better get going. And it was a large cohort.
The assessment was quite straightforward. I had given the students a pile of data, and the idea was that they select some of that data, plot it up, use these plots for answering the research question, explain why they came to that answer, and then compare that answer to other answers out there in published literature. And marking the plots is very quick. And the rest took more time, but still less than the other assignments I had marked.
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| Sunset over the North Sea; the setting for this assignment |
I basically marked all day Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, only taking off the Monday evening for the dinner in Llanberis, and 7-9 pm on Tuesday for Welsh class. And then I was done on Tuesday 11pm. I was so relieved. But also dead tired and with sore arms.
I can now finally do other things again! Not a moment too soon. I have student meetings coming up, and student presentation sessions to organise and attend, and an exam preparation sessions, and a list of academic integrity cases to deal with, and loads more. And more marking, but not such big piles anymore this semester. I feel a whole lot better now that this is behind me…
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