Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight
https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/auto-grade-hn/
#HackerNews #Auto-grading #HN #discussions #hindsight #grading #AI #analysis
#grading
There's only so much baking avoidance that one batch of papers can justify, even if they are the long research papers of the year
But the popovers were lovely, thanks for asking
Today is the first day of the rest of…
What? A batch of papers to mark?
Today is a good day to … learn something new
Sinh viên cáo buộc giảng viên đại học hàng đầu Australia dùng AI chấm bài; nhà trường đang điều tra. #AI #Grading #Australia #University #Giáo dục #Úc #Đại học #Trí tuệ nhân tạo
#Diamond #Grading is a standardized method, primarily utilizing the 4 Cs—Cut, Color, Clarity, and Carat weight—to assess and communicate the quality and value of a diamond.
This meticulous evaluation process is performed by gemological laboratories, like GIA, to provide buyers with an objective report of the stone's characteristics.
https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Famous-Diamonds-601eb2d36088c3160248ed36
The day is over and I'm drained. We had to change tires today, the middle child had #grading at #TaeKwonDo (leveled up), there was a piano lesson as well, and 2/3 kids went to shops in two different shopping centers.
Getting them home was 2 bonus tasks.
We were so short on time that we did not change drivers. I was supposed to drive but I ended up making half of the dinner.
3 more hours until my bed time..
Older child pushed past us another day of no chores.
#BMES2025 stop by and learn about the new types of feedback that we have introduced into a Biomedical Instrumentation Lab.
#EngEdu #Biomedical #undergraduateLab #STEM #engineering #BMES #feedback #grading #academia #conference #poster @academicchatter
"AI – the ultimate bullshit machine – can produce a better 5PE than any student can, because the point of the 5PE isn't to be intellectually curious or rigorous, it's to produce a standardized output that can be analyzed using a standardized rubric.
I've been writing YA novels and doing school visits for long enough to cement my understanding that kids are actually pretty darned clever. They don't graduate from high school thinking that their mastery of the 5PE is in any way good or useful, or that they're learning about literature by making five marginal observations per page when they read a book.
Given all this, why wouldn't you ask an AI to do your homework? That homework is already the revenge of Goodhart's Law, a target that has ruined its metric. Your homework performance says nothing useful about your mastery of the subject, so why not let the AI write it. Hell, if you're a smart, motivated kid, then letting the AI write your bullshit 5PEs might give you time to write something good.
Teachers aren't to blame here. They have to teach to the test, or they will fail their students (literally, because they will have to assign a failing grade to them, and figuratively, because a student who gets a failing grade will face all kinds of punishments). Teachers' unions – who consistently fight against standardization and in favor of their members discretion to practice their educational skills based on kids' individual needs – are the best hope we have:"
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/11/five-paragraph-essay/#targets-r-us
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Chatbots #Schools #Education #Grading #GoodhartsLaw
Has anyone played around with encouraging (but not requiring) students to teach one another?
One way of demonstrating mastery of the material is teaching it to others. I feel like if student A says "Student B really helped me understand the material" that increases my Bayesian posterior that student B understood the material really well (and also that student A understood it, since presumably after student B explained it, student A understood it at least better than they did before).
I wouldn't do this as the only, or even major, part of their grade, but it seems like if the grade is to reflect learning, that teaching it to others certainly reflects on their learning.
(Additional context: this is for a university-level elective technical course in Comp Sci, for 3rd and 4th-years mostly. I generally do flipped classroom and alternative grading - some combo of ungrading, mastery-based, standards-based, but I'm open to ideas. The class has about 55 students, so whatever it is can take some time but not be *too* time-intensive on me & the one TA.)
#AlternativeGrading #grading #teaching #education #CSEd #ComputerScience #CompSci
Anyone else hate #reading or #grading loooong, generic, or unconvincing essays? In case it's not just me:
I've been refining a 3-paragraph essay assignment for years. In this post I explain it and what I like about it.
Feel free to adapt it!
https://byrdnick.com/archives/29297/a-3-paragraph-writing-assignment
OK I'm going to slack off on #grading programming assignments for a moment to ramble about workflow with grading.
Currently, students turn in a URL to their repository when they're done with a given lab. I just need a way for Canvas to flag that it's ready to grade.
I have a script to "git pull" all students' repositories, and I have have "tester.sh" scripts within each lab folder which builds and runs the assignments -
I’ve been grading some more #PhilosophyMemes. Some of these students have really knocked it out of the park! 😂 Funny and clever, showing subtlety and sophistication. Makes me realise how much we’re missing when we set them traditional essay-writing assignments. 😬 #grading #academia
My favorite portion of grading these exams. This was about a regression analysis.
Marking Time
So here we are, then, with only a few days before examinations start (next Friday, 16th May). The examinations for my two modules take place on Monday 19th and Tuesday 27th May, and after that I’ll be busy with marking for a while.
Marking doesn’t just mean written examinations. I have been teaching a module on Computational Physics to 3rd Year students here in Maynooth, and 40% of the assessment for that is a mini-project (usually done in groups of two or three). Early on the term, I put up a list of 16 projects and asked them to pick first second and third choices so I could form groups in such a way that most students get to work on a project they have actively chosen.
Anyway, the deadline for projects to be handed in passed last week so I’ve got a stack of those to mark which, you will realise, why I am indulging in a displacement activity by writing this blog post. My plan is to mark these during this week so that they’re done before the written examinations come in, which means by next Monday (19th). This year we have had a bigger class than usual, so this I have quite a lot of marking to do.
Last week also saw the deadline for the last assignment in Particle Physics to be handed in. I want to mark those as soon as possible, but I’m not sure I’ll have time this week, but I should be able to do them before the exam on the 27th.
Incidentally, one of the submissions of the last assignment came with a note that this was the last assignment the student had done in Maynooth and that the first one he had done, when he was in his first year, was also set by me.
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