How to grade unreadable student handwriting
Unreadable handwriting makes student work impossible to grade fairly, forcing teachers to waste time calling students up to decipher their own writing. This prevents efficient assessment and stalls the entire grading process when assignments cannot be deciphered at all.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1marking the unreadable work as wrong
- 2calling students up to read their own work aloud
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
Where this came up
People with this problem also raised
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