{"id":13544,"date":"2019-11-06T17:20:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T01:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=13544"},"modified":"2019-11-30T21:19:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T05:19:06","slug":"modern-problems-with-the-staircase-grading-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/11\/06\/modern-problems-with-the-staircase-grading-method\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Problems With the Staircase Grading Method"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>One of Prairie\u2019s classes turns in papers tomorrow, and as she\u2019s dealing with a cold, she said she wasn\u2019t looking forward to having to grade while her head is all foggy. So I suggested using the \u201cstaircase method\u201d (for those who aren\u2019t teachers, this involves tossing the papers down the staircase: the further down the stairs they go, the better the grade, because more pages = heavier papers).<\/p>\n<p>She then pointed out that her students turn their papers in electronically, and mimed tossing her laptop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThud, thud, thud. Well, they all got the same grade, and now you need a new laptop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She decided not to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Prairie\u2019s classes turns in papers tomorrow, and as she\u2019s dealing with a cold, she said she wasn\u2019t looking forward to having to grade while her head is all foggy. So I suggested using the \u201cstaircase method\u201d (for those who aren\u2019t teachers, this involves tossing the papers down the staircase: the further down the &#8230; <a title=\"Modern Problems With the Staircase Grading Method\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/11\/06\/modern-problems-with-the-staircase-grading-method\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Modern Problems With the Staircase Grading Method\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}