Q 1. According to Belanoff, communal judgment and students’ understanding of the standard are pivotal in grading. Failing this step, I guess, can lead students to claim the grade they received. Do you have any experience having trouble with students with their grades? How did you handle the situation?
Q 2. Daiker emphasizes the importance of praise in education. But in a circumstance in which instructors should grade students papers, don’t you think praises and low grade would be contradictory? Or do you have any idea about making two features compatible?
2. In Daiker's piece, Ken Macrorie was quoted as saying “encourage and encourage, but never falsely.” And while praise is definitely important, I feel as though Macrorie's clarification of using praise is vastly important to recognize as it would definitely help prevent the contradiction you pose in your question. I definitely feel as though the multiple conferences for both 2135 and 1101 would also help preventing this from happening as the student would ideally have had time to revise their paper in between the feedback given during the conference and the date it is actually due.
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