Grading is a way for faculty to both assess student work and provide feedback to students on their level of understanding of a course’s material. Whether your grading system is traditional or nontraditional, the feedback-giving process is often one of the most time consuming aspects of teaching. As early career faculty transition from lighter graduate school teaching loads to more sizable teaching loads as new faculty, finding time to grade an increased amount of student work can be challenging. Having a student grader can reduce your grading burden, but not all institutions offer this support. Our goal is to provide you with some tips and tricks to make the grading process more smooth and efficient regardless of institution.

Schaefer, Jennifer, and Rebecca Swanson. Tips for Saving Time with Grading. Notices of the American Mathematical Society 71, no. 4 (2024): 478-480. https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202404/noti2918/noti2918.html?adat=April%202024&trk=2918&galt=career&cat=career&pdfissue=202404&pdffile=rnoti-p478.pdf

Jennifer Schaefer is a professor of Mathematics at Dickinson College.

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