In around the year 2000 I had an essay due that day I had forgotten, and about ten minutes of computer lab time before home room in the morning. I wrote an introduction and conclusion; then filled the remainder with copy pasted chunks of the introduction and conclusion. The thought being at least I’d get a laugh. If anyone had read the thing it would have been clear it was nonsense.
I received an 80% with no notes or markup.
I have been left wondering for the last 25 years how much student work is actually even reviewed.
I work in EdTech and every time we add a feature that requires manual teacher review of student work you will see that some teachers are VERY diligent while others never touch it.
There was this numerical calculus class at Uni where the teacher forbid us to use the calculator. So I just programmed the integral on it, got the partial steps, and just wrote random numbers to fill the the substeps. Got full grade :D
The other case everybody got to pass the class, but after vacation we found the stack of exams completely untouched under a desk. The teacher had a side business to run...
I received an 80% with no notes or markup.
I have been left wondering for the last 25 years how much student work is actually even reviewed.
I work in EdTech and every time we add a feature that requires manual teacher review of student work you will see that some teachers are VERY diligent while others never touch it.