Making the Grade
I saw a tweet sometime last year that suggested if one found grading an onerous task, the solution was to design assignments that were fun to grade.* I admit to thinking the idea was preposterous. Grading, for all twenty-two years of my teaching life, had been an uphill battle against the forces of procrastination, resentment, and frustration. This had nothing to do with the quality of the work that my students produced – their papers were regularly fantastic. But I…