My brain was mush but I got it done! On the Friday before my birthday, I sat down in the home office (cat next to me) to mark the last scripts. Then I went into the office for the final touches. The thing was that this was the field trip report; the students were also marked on the data they had gathered. These grades were already in a spreadsheet somewhere. But in order to add them to the scripts, I needed to know which group the students had been in. And I was doing anonymous marking.
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| Pic from the field trip |
Some students put their name on the script anyway, or only plotted the data of their own group. Then I could just add their mark for the data. Most didn’t. Fortunately, you can de-anonymise the scripts, but you have to do it one by one.
It was also the day of the Christmas celebration of the School. Don't imagine anything too laborious; just our coffee area filled with food, and lots of people eating. And some mulled wine. I popped in to show my good intentions, but was gone after half an hour. Then I went back to my desk.
When it was done I sent it off to Jaco. He was the moderator. And I didn’t have to publish it until Wednesday, but he would go off to a conference, so it would have to be sorted before then.
By then it was only mid afternoon. My brain was fried! But I also knew I would have a whole day of student presentations on Monday, so I had to prepare for that then. And preferably also for the presentations the day after that. So I did.
Then it was time to go home. A long period of marking had come to an end! I could go and celebrate weekend now. And more than just weekend!
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