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There's a good empirical study for you. Do the stair method, record the results. Then grade by whichever is your preferred "serious" grading methodology, record the results. Then compare the results.
How Do You Grade Finals? By Exam or By Question?
For the first few years I graded, I took what I thought was a pretty standard approach. I had a stack of exams, and I went through them one by one, grading each exam fully based on the rubric I had developed. Last year, however, a colleague persuaded me to try a different approach - grading by ...
Thanks Colin. I hadn't seen your post before writing this one, but it's remarkable how similar they are in content....
How Do You Grade Finals? By Exam or By Question?
For the first few years I graded, I took what I thought was a pretty standard approach. I had a stack of exams, and I went through them one by one, grading each exam fully based on the rubric I had developed. Last year, however, a colleague persuaded me to try a different approach - grading by ...
A related tragic story is here - http://www.theonion.com/articles/nation-shocked-by-prenatal-shooting,378/
8-Year-Old Accidentally Exercises Second Amendment Rights
The inspiring story is here.
HenryB - Justice Thomas is quite clear on this point in his very first page. He rejects incorporation through the Due Process Clause for any part of the Bill of Rights: "But I cannot agree that it is enforceable against the States through a clause that speaks only to “process.”" He later says, on page 8, after discussing the history of Due Process incorporation: "I cannot accept a theory of constitutional interpretation that rests on such tenuous footing."
McDonald v. Chicago as Paradox
Thanks Dan for letting me join this great community to share some thoughts with you. Today, like many constitutional law professors, I'm thinking about the Second Amendment. But my thoughts are probably a little different than most others. Certain to be missed in the coverage of today’s decisi...
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