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Abstracts of Forum Articles
UNDER THE PLANE TREE: HOW WOULD SOCRATES GRADE PAPERS?
Abstract:
A professor recounts his positive experience grading papers through one-on-one sessions in which students read their work aloud and discussed it with him. This candid report features a former student as inspiration and includes confessions of self-doubt, course evaluation comments, and suggestions for running such a Socratic grading session.