Resources

Guides and materials for grading writing well

Reading paths if you want a sequence, and the rubrics, templates and planners themselves if you already know what you are after.

Where do you want to start?

Four paths through the same material. Each one is a sequence, not a category — you can read it in order and stop when you have what you need.

No sequence

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When a whole department needs to grade the same way

Everything above is self-serve. TA39 also runs a facilitated professional development program across one term, built around your own rubrics rather than a generic workshop.

Phase 1

Rubrics, before anyone grades

Pre-semester · 2–3 hoursYour own rubrics reviewed and tightened, so the feedback drafted against them has something to aim at.

Phase 2

One assignment, graded together

During term · 2–2.5 hoursA live assignment worked through as a team, so a department arrives at the same judgment on the same draft.

Phase 3

What the revisions showed

End of term · 2–4 hoursThe patterns across a term of drafts, and what they change about what gets taught next.
See the PD program

Usually run by one assessment lead per department. Around 8 hours of their time across the term.

Reading is not the point. Running one assignment is.

Bring a rubric and a set of drafts you already have. The first path takes you from there to returned feedback.

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