On Midterms

Grading the midterms was fascinating, and surprisingly easy. It was something of a 4% game: the vast majority either got 4% right or wrong, with very few in the middle.

Yes, it hurt a goodly bit to see how little got through to so many, but I'm not looking at that right now.

More interesting are the general trends, relative to morning or afternoon and most especially class size. Imagine: the class with only 35 had only 3 in the single digits, while the classes of 50+ had, in some cases, 20-30% in the single digits.

No, we're not talking about how so many students could get so many questions wrong.

It'll be interesting dawing up the numbers and eventually writing up a case study, I guess.

But most pressing, I found the greatest nickname I've come across yet: King Kong. And it belongs to a girl. A pretty one, too.