Catherine Anderson

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 2d

And put these two in your backpack to read a bit over the weekend 4 and 6 times respectively

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 4d

Both come in liquid form :

A martini with an olive in it, with Xmas tree in the background

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 4d

Just realized there’s a step before 14 that I missed: scan for 48s and 49s and bump them up to D-

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, we have one week from the day of the exam to get grades submitted. It's Day 6 and I'm on step 12 of the process and I'm not leaving here today until I've clicked that "upload" button!

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 4d

14. Hold our breath, click Upload, and immediately turn on the autoreply so we won't see the email complaints until January. Pour ourselves a glass of something.

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 4d

13. Are we done? Check the distribution and see whether it makes sense for an intro class. For a class of this size at this level, I usually expect about 30% each of As, Bs and Cs, and 10% Ds or Fs.

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 4d

12. Reweigh the totals for the students that had the project excused. Reweigh the totals for the different students that had an excused absence for the midterm.

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 4d

11. Now we are ready to calculate total grades. Work some more spreadsheet magic. But more complications await us!

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 4d

10. Pick up that one remaining special exam and hand-grade both its components.

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 4d

9. Realize some MC scores are still missing. Walk over to the scanning place and pick up the cards. Hand-grade the ones that entered their student number incorrectly.

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 4d

8. Hand-grade the accommodated MC cards that did not make it to the scanner.

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 4d

7. Compare scores for written and MC components. Discover that some students are missing one component and some the other.

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 4d

6. Download scantron results and work spreadsheet magic to calculate scores for multiple-choice questions.

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 4d

5. Pick up "specials" (i.e. exams written with accommodations) from the exam depot. Mark them and enter scores into spreadsheet.

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 4d

Enter scores from paper exams into spreadsheet. Discover that some TAs are not good at alphabetizing, and that some undergraduates don't know the difference between a given name and a surname.

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 4d

3. With team of TAs, mark 400 written exams while scanner does its work on the multiple-choice. Before the TAs leave, remember to get them to alphabetize by surname.

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 4d

2. Pull scantron cards from written exams and make sure they're all facing the same direction. Complete paperwork and walk them over to the scanning office. (Different building from exam depot.)

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 4d

1. Pick up completed paper exams from exam depot. This year I remembered to bring my grocery bins so I was able to carry them all myself but in years with bigger enrolments I've needed TAs to help with this.

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 4d

The final exam for my course of 400+ students was six days ago and I'm still calculating final grades. As a little break from the spreadsheets, I thought I'd pull back the curtain on what the prof does after the exam. 🧵 1/n

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 4d

Hey, your work matters. The version of "success" that is sold to us in PhD programs is so narrow and confining and unimaginative and I hate that it shapes so many of us for years & decades after the PhD.

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 6d

I first learned the word from the original Queer Eye series in the early 00s so it’s been around in N America for at least 20 years

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 7d

Reposting because the morning crowd deserves to see how cute we are.

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 7d

Twenty-six years these babes have been married. That’s literally half our lives.

Two white women stand smiling in front of a Christmas tree. They both have glasses. One has short blond hair and the other has wavy shoulder-length blond hair.

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 7d

The restaurant staff all agreed my sparkly jacket won the prize for best outfit.

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 7d

Twenty-six years these babes have been married. That’s literally half our lives.

Holiday Ryan @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 14d

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 20d

I generally really like learning new things, but I confess to some resentment at having to teach myself organic chemistry at the breakfast table for the sake of the Grade 12 project.

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 21d

Also bookmarking many of the links in this thread. Thanks, colleagues!

Catherine Anderson @candershamilton.bsky.social · 21d

I'm torn between the whole AI Con book (maybe esp Chs 1 & 5) and the whole Tech Won't Save Us podcast run, so I'll recommend the intersection of the two: the episode with Emily Bender & Alex Hanna:
www.techwontsave.us/episode/277_...